This paper will review a series of studies using the Experience Sampling Method that
suggest that altered sensitivity to stress is an endophenotype for psychosis. The Experience …

Background The vulnerability-stress model of psychotic disorders describes, in essence, an
interaction between personal vulnerability and environmental stressors. The present study …

Objective: This study assessed the relationship between stress reactivity (trait 1) and
psychosis (trait 2) across genetically related persons (cross‐twin, cross‐trait design) to …

Background: The expression of schizophrenia has been reported to differ between the
sexes. The current study investigates whether these sex differences in clinical expression …

The goal of this special section is to examine the mechanisms of enhanced sensitivity and
sensitization to stress as they influence the etiology and pathophysiology of …

Subclinical psychotic experiences at the level of the general population are common,
forming an extended psychosis phenotype with clinical psychosis. Persistence of subclinical …

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether stress sensitivity mediates the
relationship between traumatic life events and total attenuated positive psychotic symptoms …

Background. Recent neurobiological models provide a possible mechanism of daily life
stress directly affecting the intensity of psychotic experiences in vulnerable individuals. In …

This article presents evidence suggesting that psychosocial stress may increase risk for
psychosis, especially in the case of cumulative exposure. A heuristically useful framework to …

The experience of stress is commonly implicated in the onset and maintenance of psychotic
disorders such as schizophrenia. Previous studies that have addressed this relationship …