Background. It is increasingly understood that voice-hearing is neither a rare phenomenon
experienced only by 'psychiatric patients' nor a meaningless symptom of a 'mental illness' …

There is a great deal of research on the prevalence, correlates, and treatment of PTSD in the
general population. However, we know very little about the manifestation and consequences …

Objective: Using longitudinal and prospective measures of trauma during childhood, the
authors assessed the risk of developing psychotic symptoms associated with maltreatment …

Brain plasticity can be conceptualized as nature's invention to overcome limitations of the
genome and adapt to a rapidly changing environment. As such, plasticity is an intrinsic …

Objective To determine whether use of cannabis in adolescence increases the risk for
psychotic outcomes by affecting the incidence and persistence of subclinical expression of …

From Aaron T. Beck and colleagues, this is the definitive work on the cognitive model of
schizophrenia and its treatment. The volume integrates cognitive-behavioral and biological …

BackgroundA number of studies in a range of samples attest a link between childhood
sexual abuse and psychosis. AimsTo use data from a large representative general …

Lardinois M, Lataster T, Mengelers R, van Os J, Myin‐Germeys I. Childhood trauma and
increased stress sensitivity in psychosis. Objective: The notion that traumatic experiences in …

A high prevalence of childhood abuse has been reported in patients with severe mental
illness. We conducted a cross-sectional study of 102 patients with schizophrenia, bipolar …

Objective: The associations of two types of childhood trauma (abuse and neglect) with
psychosis symptom domains were investigated in subjects with psychotic illness, high …