The few studies that have investigated the relationship between trauma and dissociative
symptoms in patients with schizophrenia have not assessed the role of the severity of …

Schizophrenia has been associated with heightened stress responsivity in adolescence that
precedes onset of psychosis. We now report that multiple stressors during adolescence in …

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

Schizophrenia spectrum and bipolar disorder are characterized by high levels of childhood
trauma as well as of cognitive dysfunction. Our aim is to investigate the association between …

Background. Schizotypy is a complex concept, commonly defined as a genetic vulnerability
to schizophrenia that falls on a continuum between healthy variation and severe mental …

Over the past decade, our understanding of the role of stress in serious mental illness has
become more sophisticated. In this paper, we revisit the neural diathesis-stress model of …

As a risk factor for psychosis, childhood trauma rates are elevated in the clinical-high-risk
(CHR) syndrome compared to the general population. However, it is unknown whether …

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

Childhood trauma, and in particular physical neglect, has been repeatedly associated with
lower performance on measures of social cognition (eg emotion recognition tasks) in both …

An interaction between external stressors and intrinsic vulnerability is one of the longest
standing pathoaetiological explanations for schizophrenia. However, novel lines of evidence …