At least 10–15% of the general population regularly experience paranoid thoughts and
persecutory delusions are a frequent symptom of psychosis. Persecutory ideation is a key …

BackgroundCognitive models of the positive symptoms of psychosis specify the cognitive,
social and emotional processes hypothesized to contribute to their occurrence and …

Around half of all patients with schizophrenia are thought to abuse drugs or alcohol and
there is good evidence to suggest that they have poorer outcomes than their non substance …

PURPOSE: Recent work suggested that psychosis might be expressed at subclinical levels.
However, the determinants of subclinical psychotic symptoms, the degree of continuity over …

Prospective longitudinal investigations are needed to identify causal processes leading to
schizophrenia. However, there is presently no cost-effective way to identify children who are …

Objective: To investigate recent evidence suggesting that social factors are causally related
to the development of schizophrenia. Method: I conducted a sytematic review of MEDLINE to …

In this paper, we discuss the conceptual background for including a dimensional component
to the DSM V diagnoses for psychoses. We review the evidence for a continuous distribution …

Treating psychotic disorders in their earliest stages has become a key focus for research
and clinical care. This paper reviews evidence of the capacity to identify those at increased …

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to examine the reliability, validity and factor structure
of the Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences (CAPE), a 42-item self-report …

BackgroundThe nosological status of auditory hallucinations in non-clinical samples is
unclearAimsTo investigate the functional neural basis of non-clinical …