Early-life psychosocial stress primes a number of health risk behaviors, and contributes to
the development of various mental and somatic disorders in adulthood. It has been reported …

Psychotic experiences (PE) are common in the general population, in particular in
childhood, adolescence and young adulthood. PE have been shown to be associated with …

Background Traumatic events, particularly childhood interpersonal victimisation, have been
found to play a causal role in the occurrence of psychosis and shape the phenomenology of …

Stress has repeatedly been implicated in the onset and exacerbation of positive symptoms
of psychosis. Increasing interest is growing for the role of psychosocial stress in the …

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) has been associated not only with an increased
vulnerability for stress-related psychiatric disorders but also with distinct alterations of the …

Psychotic disorders often develop as the continuum of subclinical symptoms that include
hallucination-like and delusion-like experiences, and are commonly referred to as psychotic …

Background Affective temperaments represent the stable, biologically determined substrates
of mood disorders. The relationship between affective temperaments and bipolar disorder …

Background A range of traumas have been linked to voices (auditory verbal hallucinations)
and unusual perceptual experiences (UPEs) in other perceptualsensory domains. Models …

Recent diagnostic developments suggest that paranoia is a transdiagnostic characteristic
common to several personality disorders rather than a personality disorder per se …

Background Emerging evidence supports the safety, acceptability, and efficacy of trauma
therapies for people experiencing post-traumatic stress and psychosis, despite common …