Voice hearing (VH) is often regarded as pathognomic for schizophrenia. The purpose of this
article is to review and integrate historical, clinical, epidemiological, and phenomenological …

Schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) first appeared in the American Psychiatric
Association diagnostic nosology in 1980. However, its roots stretch back more than 100 …

The meanings and causes of hearing voices that others cannot hear (auditory verbal
hallucinations, in psychiatric parlance) have been debated for thousands of years. Voice …

After decades of ignoring or minimising the prevalence and effects of negative events in
childhood, researchers have recently established that a broad range of adverse childhood …

BACKGROUND: Initial studies have shown that posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be
effectivelytreated in patients with a psychotic disorder. These studies however used adapted …

BackgroundThere may be biological plausibility to the notion that cannabis use and
childhood trauma or maltreatment synergistically increase the risk for later development of …

High rates of childhood abuse (CA) have been reported among people with severe mental
illness, but the content of psychotic symptoms is not generally considered pertinent to …

Adverse, unfavourable life conditions, particularly during early life stages and infancy, can
lead to epigenetic regulation of genes involved in stress-response, behavioral disinhibition …

Background The study aimed to expand upon existing findings on the vulnerability to
psychosis by examining synergistic models of hallucination emergence. Hypothesised …

The present research assesses the frequency of self-reported childhood trauma in
individuals with and without persecutory delusions. Comparisons are made between …