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  1. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology Department, SGR-881, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
  2. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Spain
  3. Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi Sunyer (CERCA-IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
  4. Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
  5. Corresponding author: Inmaculada Baeza, MD, PhD, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, Institut Clínic of Neurosciences, Hospital Clínic Universitari, Barcelona, Villarroel, 170, Barcelona 08036, Spain ([email protected]).
  6. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology Department, SGR-881, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
  7. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Spain
  8. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Spain
  9. Barcelona Clinic Schizophrenia Unit, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Neuroscience Institute, Barcelona, Spain
  10. Department of Psychiatry, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Pamplona, IdiSNA, Navarra Institute for Health Research, Pamplona, Spain
  11. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Spain
  12. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, IiSGM, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense, Madrid
  13. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Spain
  14. Barcelona Clinic Schizophrenia Unit, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Neuroscience Institute, Barcelona, Spain
  15. Hospital Clínico Universitario and Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria (IIS) Aragón, Zaragoza, Department of Medicine and Psychiatry, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
  16. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Spain
  17. Department of Psychiatry, BIOARABA, UPV/EHU, Vitoria, Spain
  18. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Spain
  19. Psychiatry Department, Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica-Sant Pau (IIB-SANT PAU), Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain
  20. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Spain
  21. Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Bipolar and Depressive Disorders Unit, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain
  22. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology Department, SGR-881, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
  23. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Spain
  24. Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi Sunyer (CERCA-IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
  25. Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute
  26. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Spain
  27. Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi Sunyer (CERCA-IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
  28. Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
  29. Barcelona Clinic Schizophrenia Unit, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Neuroscience Institute, Barcelona, Spain
  30. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Spain
  31. Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi Sunyer (CERCA-IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
  32. Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
  33. Barcelona Clinic Schizophrenia Unit, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Neuroscience Institute, Barcelona, Spain
  34. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Spain
  35. Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi Sunyer (CERCA-IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
  36. Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
  37. Barcelona Clinic Schizophrenia Unit, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Neuroscience Institute, Barcelona, Spain
  38. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology Department, SGR-881, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
  39. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Spain
  40. Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi Sunyer (CERCA-IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
  41. Members of the PEPs Group are listed at the end of the article.
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