Hearing a voice in the absence of any speaker can be a significant feature of psychiatric
illness, but is also increasingly acknowledged as an important aspect of everyday, non …

Objectives: To synthesize the prevalence of mental and substance use disorders in
countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) of the World Health Organization …

Background Adolescents are at high risk of incident psychopathology. Fleeting psychotic
experiences (PEs) that emerge in young people in response to stress may be warning signs …

The concept of early intervention in psychosis is still novel and evolving in some Arab
countries, while completely non-existent in most of the other countries. What further …

No self-report measures of psychotic experiences have been validated in the Arabic
language. We aimed to examine the psychometric properties (ie, factor structure, internal …

Background The limited studies that focused on suicidality in individuals at Ultra-High Risk
(UHR) of psychosis were predominantly cross-sectional, emerging from Western countries …

Background As we face the largest refugee crisis since World War Two, research is
increasingly examining the impact of forced displacement. The risk of non-affective …

Background Psychotic symptoms reported by healthy individuals in the general population
are referred to as psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) and have been proven to increase the …

No epidemiological prevalence data regarding psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) in children
and adolescents are yet available for Arab countries. Providing age-appropriate …

Despite the increased focus on non-clinical psychosis populations, no community surveys
have properly investigated the phenotypal expression of Psychotic like experiences (PLEs) …