An estimated 400 million people suffer from mental or neurological disorders or from
psychosocial problems such as those related to alcohol and drug abuse. Many of them …

A number of studies have explored hallucinations as complex experiences involving
interactions between psychological, biological, and environmental factors and mechanisms …

In the 1960s the World Health Organization (WHO) carried out an Internationa Study of
Schizophrenia (IPSS), a transcultural investigation of more than 1200 patients ii countries …

Background Expressed emotion (EE) is a measure of the family environment that has been
demonstrated to be a reliable psychosocial predictor of relapse in schizophrenia. However …

The predictive validity of expressed emotion (EE) and two conceptually related but more
easily measured alternatives—marital distress, and patients' perceptions of criticism from …

Expressed emotion (EE) is a measure of the family environment that predicts worse clinical
outcomes for patients with a range of disorders. This article describes the assessment of EE …

Expressed emotion (EE) has substantial scientific support as a predictor of relapse of
positive symptoms. The median relapse rate in a high-EE environment is 48%, compared …

Culture influences the experience and expression of distress from its inception. While
Western psychiatry has identified several universal patterns of distress, there are significant …

Much research has been carried out on the impact of family relationships on the
development and course of different illnesses. Research on Expressed Emotion (EE) …

We analysed aggregate data from 25 studies linking Expressed Emotion (EE) and
schizophrenia. We had access to original data sets from 17 studies, and used published …