The current diathesis-stress model of schizophrenia proposes that a genetic deficit creates a
predisposing vulnerability in the form of oversenstivity to stress. This model positions all …

There is a substantive literature on the behavioral effects of psychosocial stressors on
schizophrenia. More recently, research has been conducted on neurohormonal indicators of …

Evidence that childhood adversities are risk factors for psychosis has accumulated rapidly.
Research into the mechanisms underlying these relationships has focused, productively, on …

Schizophrenia is a severe neuropsychiatric disorder with persistence of symptoms
throughout adult life in most of the affected patients. This unfavorable course is associated …

Dissociation, though understood as a response to trauma, lacks a proven etiology. The
assumption of a dose–response relationship between trauma, dissociation and …

Decades of research on schizophrenia have not produced major breakthroughs, but gradual
progress has been made in identifying risk factors and clarifying the nature of the etiologic …

Recent studies have isolated some socioenvironmental factors that seem to predict the
onset of schizophrenic episodes in vulnerable persons. In particular, stressful life events …

This article summarizes the research literature documenting the high prevalence of
psychological trauma, including childhood sexual and physical abuse, among people …

While researchers have for decades considered the role of social factors, endocrinology,
neural function, hippocampal integrity, and cognition in the development of schizophrenia …

Diathesis-stress models of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders have dominated
theorizing about etiology for over three decades. More recently, with advances in our …