Schizophrenia is a disorder with a heterogeneous etiology involving complex interplay
between genetic and environmental risk factors. The immune system is now known to play …

Schizophrenia is a severe neuropsychiatric disorder with persistence of symptoms
throughout adult life in most of the affected patients. This unfavorable course is associated …

Background Child maltreatment and its consequences are considered a major public health
problem. So far, there is only one study from Germany reporting prevalence rates on …

Childhood maltreatment (CM) has been related to social functioning and social cognition
impairment in people with psychotic disorders (PD); however, evidence across different CM …

Objective: To present a systematic review of the literature on the associations between early
social environment, early life adversity, and social cognition in major psychiatric disorders …

Childhood adversity increases the risk of developing psychosis, but the biological
mechanisms involved are unknown. Disaggregating early adverse experiences into core …

Childhood trauma (CT) has repeatedly been associated with cognitive deficits in patients
with psychosis but many inconsistencies have been reported so that the nature of the …

Childhood trauma, and in particular physical neglect, has been repeatedly associated with
lower performance on measures of social cognition (eg emotion recognition tasks) in both …

Introduction The relationship between childhood trauma and the risk of psychosis is well
established. However, the mechanisms of the relationship are still unknown. We …

Background There is considerable evidence of dysconnectivity within the default-mode
network (DMN) in schizophrenia, as measured during resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) …