Psychiatric disorders are one of the leading causes of disability worldwide and affect the
quality of life of both individuals and the society. The current understanding of these …

Cognitive impairment is a well-recognized key feature of schizophrenia. Here we review the
evidence on (1) the onset and sensitive periods of change in cognitive impairment before …

Importance Schizophrenia is associated with major cognitive deficits and has been
conceptualized as both a neurodevelopmental and a neurodegenerative disorder. However …

Childhood psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) are associated with a range of impairments; a
subset of children experiencing PLEs will develop psychiatric disorders, including psychotic …

Background Children at familial high‐risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder have an
elevated prevalence of mental disorders but studies of children within a narrow age range …

Current strategies to predict psychosis identify only a small proportion of individuals at risk.
Additional strategies are needed to increase capacity for prediction and prevention of …

Cognitive impairments are core features of established schizophrenia spectrum disorders
(SSD). However, it remains unclear whether specific cognitive functions are differentially …

Background Earlier schizophrenia onset in men relative to women has been a consistent
finding in the literature, but a nuanced understanding of underlying reasons remains elusive …

Hallucination is defined in the diagnostic systems as an experience resembling true
perception without causal stimulus. In this second report from an in-depth phenomenological …

Very preterm children are more likely to exhibit difficulties in socio-emotional processing
than their term-born peers. Emerging socio-emotional problems may be partly due to …