Schizotypal traits and psychotic-like experiences during adolescence: An update

E Fonseca Pedrero, M Debbané - Psicothema, 2017 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
BACKGROUND: The psychosis phenotype is distributed along a severity continuum that
ranges from psychological well-being to full-blown psychosis. Schizotypal traits and …

Multiple complex developmental disorder (MCDD): Did we throw the baby out with the bathwater too fast? A systematic review

V Zaccaria, I Ardizzone, F Pisani… - Clinical Child …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Multiple complex developmental disorder (MCDD) manifests as early-onset
impairment across different domains. Although it could appear as a transitional condition …

Attentional set-shifting and social abilities in children with schizotypal and comorbid autism spectrum disorders

A Abu-Akel, RR Testa, HP Jones… - Australian & New …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: While diagnostically independent, autism and schizotypal disorders can co-occur.
Their concurrent impact on outcomes and phenotypes has not been investigated. We …

Co-occurrence of autistic and psychotic traits: implications for depression, self-harm and suicidality

KN Sampson, R Upthegrove, A Abu-Akel… - Psychological …, 2021 - cambridge.org
BackgroundThere is increasing interest in the clinical and aetiological overlap between
autism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia spectrum disorders, reported to co-occur at …

Protocol for the development and testing of the schiZotypy Autism Questionnaire (ZAQ) in adults: a new screening tool to discriminate autism spectrum disorder from …

R Parvaiz, E Vindbjerg, B Crespi, F Happe… - BMC psychiatry, 2023 - Springer
Background Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and schizotypal disorder (SD) both have a
heterogenous presentation, with significant overlaps in symptoms and behaviour. Due to …

Childhood schizotypal features vs. high-functioning autism spectrum disorder: developmental overlaps and phenomenological differences

M Poletti, A Raballo - Schizophrenia Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Although autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia have allegedly different onset
timelines (eg in early years of life vs adolescence/early adulthood), there is nonetheless a …

Structural Relationships Among Mental Boundaries, Childhood Imaginary Companions, Creative Experiences, and Entity Encounters

K Drinkwater, N Dagnall, J Houran… - Psychological …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This study investigated relationships between thin mental boundary functioning, creativity,
imaginary companions (ICs), and anomalous '(entity) encounter experiences.'A convenience …

The ghostly character of childhood imaginary companions: An empirical study of online accounts

B Laythe, J Houran, C Little - The Journal of Parapsychology, 2021 - search.proquest.com
Ligne Résumé: Les récits de compagnons imaginaires infantiles (IC) contiennent parfois
des perceptions ou des themes «sinistres ou fantomatiques» qui suggerent que de telles …

Quali-quantitative comparison of childhood imaginary companions and ghostly episodes.

C Little, B Laythe, J Houran - Journal of the Society for …, 2021 - search.ebscohost.com
Accounts of childhood imaginary companions (ICs) sometimes resemble the
phenomenology of" ghostly episodes", which denotes entity encounter experiences …

Schizophrenia spectrum disorders in children and adolescents: Clinical, phenomenological, diagnostic, and prognostic features across subtypes

M Poletti, A Raballo - Schizophrenia Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) typically have a diagnostically recognizable onset
in young adulthood, yet it is not unusual that help-seeking due to initial SSD-related clinical …