Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders: Recent submissions
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The journey of adolescent paranoia: A qualitative study with patients attending child and adolescent mental health services
(2022-02)Objectives: Paranoia is most likely to emerge in adolescence. In adolescents with mental health disorders, the disruptive effect of paranoia on social relationships could worsen outcomes. However, little is known about ... -
The psychological journey of weight gain in psychosis
(2022-02)Rapid weight gain is common with antipsychotic medication. Lost confidence, low mood and medication non-adherence often follow. Yet, the dynamic interactions between the physical and psychological consequences of weight ... -
Psychological mechanisms connected to dissociation: Generating hypotheses using network analyses
(2022-02)A large number of mechanisms, many relating to the processing of affect, have been proposed to cause dissociation. The aim of this study was to use network analyses to identify psychological processes most closely connected ... -
Representation and Outcomes of Individuals With Schizophrenia Seen in Everyday Practice Who Are Ineligible for Randomized Clinical Trials
(2022-02)IMPORTANCE Most evidence about efficacy and safety of antipsychotics in schizophrenia spectrum disorders relies on randomized clinical trials (RCTs). However, owing to their strict eligibility criteria, RCTs represent ... -
SlowMo therapy, a new digital blended therapy for fear of harm from others: An account of therapy personalisation within a targeted intervention
(2022-01)Objectives: SlowMo therapy is a pioneering blended digital therapy for paranoia, augmenting face-to-face therapy with an interactive ‘webapp’ and a mobile app. A recent largescale trial demonstrated small–moderate effects ... -
Association of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders and Violence Perpetration in Adults and Adolescents From 15 Countries A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
(2021-12)Violence perpetration outcomes in individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders contribute to morbidity and mortality at a population level, disrupt care, and lead to stigma. Objective : To conduct a systematic ... -
Kalirin as a Novel Treatment Target for Cognitive Dysfunction in Schizophrenia
(2021-12)The cognitive dysfunction experienced by patients with schizophrenia represents a major unmet clinical need. We believe that enhancing synaptic function and plasticity by targeting kalirin may provide a novel means to ... -
Dissociation in patients with non-affective psychosis: Prevalence, symptom associations, and maintenance factors
(2021-11)Dissociation is problematic in its own right for patients with psychosis but may also contribute to the occurrence of psychotic experiences. We therefore set out to estimate in a large cohort of patients with psychosis the ... -
Identifying effective characteristics of behavioral weight management interventions for people with serious mental illness: A systematic review with a qualitative comparative analysis
(2021-10)People with serious mental illness (SMI) have identified barriers to engaging in behavioral weight management interventions (BWMIs). We assessed whether BWMIs that addressed these barriers were more effective. First, we ... -
Weight change, cardio-metabolic risk factors and cardiovascular incidence in people with serious mental illness: protocol of a population-based cohort study in the UK from 1998 to 2020
(2021-11)Introduction: People with serious mental illness (SMI), which includes people with diagnoses of schizophrenia spectrum and bipolar disorders, face significant health inequality. This includes a life expectancy reduced by ... -
The impact of Patient and Public Involvement in the SlowMo study: Reflections on peer innovation
(2021-09)Background: The SlowMo study demonstrated the effects of SlowMo, an eight-session digitally supported reasoning intervention, on paranoia in a large-scale randomized-controlled trial with 362 participants with schizophre ... -
Sleep and circadian rhythm actigraphy measures, mood instability and impulsivity: A systematic review
(2021-09)The normal spectrum trait measures of mood instability and impulsivity are implicated in and comprise core symptoms of several psychiatric disorders. A bidirectional relationship between these traits and sleep disturbance ... -
Critical Developmental Windows of Voltage-Gated Cation Channel Expression in Psychiatric Disorders
(2021-09)The molecular underpinnings of psychiatric disorders remain elusive despite there being a paramount need to establish druggable targets for their treatment. Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified numerous ... -
Digitally supported CBT to reduce paranoia and improve reasoning for people with schizophrenia-spectrum psychosis: the SlowMo RCT
(2021-08)Background: Reasoning may play a causal role in paranoid delusions in psychosis. SlowMo, a new digitally supported cognitive–behavioural therapy, targets reasoning to reduce paranoia. Objectives: To examine the effectiveness ... -
Targeting synaptic plasticity in schizophrenia: insights from genomic studies
(2021-08)Recent genomic findings identify many hundreds of genomic loci that are associated with schizophrenia. Consistent with data from the pregenomic era, genomic findings implicate synaptic function and plasticity as a tractable ... -
How Efficacious Are Antipsychotic Drugs for Schizophrenia? An Interpretation Based on 13 Effect Size Indices
(2021-08)Background The magnitude of the superiority of antipsychotics over placebo is debated. One reason is that the effect-size index which is usually used in meta-analyses is in standard deviation units. Many other indices, ... -
Brain glutamate concentration in men with early psychosis: a magnetic resonance spectroscopy case–control study at 7 T
(2021-06)Abnormalities in glutamate neurotransmission are linked to psychotic symptoms and cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia. magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) provides an acceptable means of measuring glutamate in the ... -
Mindfulness and acceptance based therapies for psychosis.
(2021-06)This chapter describes two approaches—person-based cognitive therapy (PBCT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)—that belong to the group of "third-wave" or contextual cognitive-behavioral therapies (CBTs). "Thirdwave" ... -
A compassionate imagery intervention for patients with persecutory delusions
(2021-06)Negative beliefs about the self, including low self-compassion, have been identified as a putative causal factor in the occurrence of paranoia. Therefore, improving self-compassion may be one route to reduce paranoia. Aims: To ... -
A qualitative study of stakeholder views on the use of a digital app for supported self-management in early intervention services for psychosis
(2021-06)Background Digital tools such as Smartphones have the potential to increase access to mental health support including self-management interventions for individuals with psychosis, and ultimately to improve outcomes. ...
