In this review article, we outline the evidence linking attachment adversity to psychosis, from
the premorbid stages of the disorder to its clinical forms. To better understand the …

Complex human social cognition has evolved in concert with risks for psychiatric disorders.
Recently, autism and psychotic-affective conditions (mainly schizophrenia, bipolar disorder …

Hallucinations in children and adolescents are now known to occur on a continuum from
healthy to psychopathology-related phenomena. Although hallucinations in young …

Tradeoffs centrally mediate the expression of human adaptations. We propose that tradeoffs
also influence the prevalence and forms of human maladaptation manifest in disease. By …

Background Many patients with a non-affective psychotic disorder suffer from impairments in
social functioning and social cognition. To target these impairments, mentalization-based …

At the core of anthropomorphism lies a false positive cognitive bias to over-attribute the
pattern of the human body and/or mind. Anthropomorphism is independently discussed in …

Introduction: Offspring of parents with severe mental illness have an increased risk of
developing mental illnesses themselves. Familial high risk cohorts give a unique opportunity …

Aim Schizotypal trait expression and mentalizing impairments represent key factors
associated with increased vulnerability for schizophrenia. In the current study, we analysed …

The positive symptoms of psychosis largely involve the experience of illusory social actors,
and yet our current measures of social cognition, at best, only weakly predict their presence …

Background: From an evolutionary perspective it is remarkable that psychotic disorders,
mostly occurring during fertile age and decreasing fecundity, maintain in the human …