{"title":"The Revised Ipseity-Disturbance Model of Schizophrenia and the Nature of Self-Disorder: A Commentary on Raballo et al. (2025).","authors":"Jasper Feyaerts, Louis Sass","doi":"10.1093/schbul/sbaf140","DOIUrl":"10.1093/schbul/sbaf140","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21530,"journal":{"name":"Schizophrenia Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1184-1186"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12414542/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144966906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel Linares, Aster Joostens, Cristina de la Malla
{"title":"A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on Contrast Sensitivity in Schizophrenia.","authors":"Daniel Linares, Aster Joostens, Cristina de la Malla","doi":"10.1093/schbul/sbae194","DOIUrl":"10.1093/schbul/sbae194","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and hypothesis: </strong>Understanding perceptual alterations in mental disorders can help uncover neural and computational anomalies. In schizophrenia, perceptual alterations have been reported for many visual features, including a deficit in contrast sensitivity, a key measure of visual function. The evidence supporting this deficit, however, has not been comprehensively synthesized.</p><p><strong>Study design: </strong>We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies measuring contrast sensitivity in individuals with schizophrenia and healthy controls. Our search identified 46 studies, of which 43 focused on chronic patients.</p><p><strong>Study results: </strong>We found that patients with chronic schizophrenia have reduced contrast sensitivity (g = 0.74; 95% CI, 0.55 to 0.93; P = 8.2 × 10-10). However, we found evidence that the deficit could be driven by medication. Additionally, none of the studies estimated attentional lapses, leaving it uncertain whether a potentially higher frequency of lapses in patients contributes to the observed deficit. Furthermore, only two studies comprehensively assessed visual acuity, complicating the understanding of the role of spatial frequency in the observed deficit.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>While we identified a robust deficit in contrast sensitivity among chronic schizophrenia patients, the influence of attentional lapses and medication on this impairment remains unclear. We make several suggestions for future research to clarify the underlying mechanisms contributing to this deficit.</p>","PeriodicalId":21530,"journal":{"name":"Schizophrenia Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1231-1241"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12414570/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142688686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Light, Song, and Living Single.","authors":"Michael Alan Snyder","doi":"10.1093/schbul/sbaf040","DOIUrl":"10.1093/schbul/sbaf040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21530,"journal":{"name":"Schizophrenia Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1177-1178"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12414560/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144043783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Victoria Rodriguez, Luis Alameda, Monica Aas, Charlotte Gayer-Anderson, Giulia Trotta, Edoardo Spinazzola, Diego Quattrone, Giada Tripoli, Hannah E Jongsma, Simona Stilo, Caterina La Cascia, Laura Ferraro, Daniele La Barbera, Antonio Lasalvia, Sarah Tosato, Ilaria Tarricone, Elena Bonora, Stéphane Jamain, Jean-Paul Selten, Eva Velthorst, Lieuwe de Haan, Pierre-Michel Llorca, Manuel Arrojo, Julio Bobes, Miguel Bernardo, Celso Arango, James Kirkbride, Peter B Jones, Bart P Rutten, Alexander Richards, Pak C Sham, Michael O'Donovan, Jim Van Os, Craig Morgan, Marta Di Forti, Robin M Murray, Evangelos Vassos
{"title":"Polygenic and Polyenvironment Interplay in Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorder and Affective Psychosis; the EUGEI First Episode Study.","authors":"Victoria Rodriguez, Luis Alameda, Monica Aas, Charlotte Gayer-Anderson, Giulia Trotta, Edoardo Spinazzola, Diego Quattrone, Giada Tripoli, Hannah E Jongsma, Simona Stilo, Caterina La Cascia, Laura Ferraro, Daniele La Barbera, Antonio Lasalvia, Sarah Tosato, Ilaria Tarricone, Elena Bonora, Stéphane Jamain, Jean-Paul Selten, Eva Velthorst, Lieuwe de Haan, Pierre-Michel Llorca, Manuel Arrojo, Julio Bobes, Miguel Bernardo, Celso Arango, James Kirkbride, Peter B Jones, Bart P Rutten, Alexander Richards, Pak C Sham, Michael O'Donovan, Jim Van Os, Craig Morgan, Marta Di Forti, Robin M Murray, Evangelos Vassos","doi":"10.1093/schbul/sbae207","DOIUrl":"10.1093/schbul/sbae207","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Multiple genetic and environmental risk factors play a role in the development of both schizophrenia-spectrum disorders and affective psychoses. How they act in combination is yet to be clarified.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We analyzed 573 first episode psychosis cases and 1005 controls, of European ancestry. Firstly, we tested whether the association of polygenic risk scores for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression (PRS-SZ, PRS-BD, and PRS-D) with schizophrenia-spectrum disorder and affective psychosis differed when participants were stratified by exposure to specific environmental factors. Secondly, regression models including each PRS and polyenvironmental measures, including migration, paternal age, childhood adversity and frequent cannabis use, were run to test potential polygenic by polyenvironment interactions.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In schizophrenia-spectrum disorder vs controls comparison, PRS-SZ was the strongest genetic predictor, having a nominally larger effect in nonexposed to strong environmental factors such as frequent cannabis use (unexposed vs exposed OR 2.43 and 1.35, respectively) and childhood adversity (3.04 vs 1.74). In affective psychosis vs controls, the relative contribution of PRS-D appeared to be stronger in those exposed to environmental risk. No evidence of interaction was found between any PRS with polyenvironmental score.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our study supports an independent role of genetic liability and polyenvironmental risk for psychosis, consistent with the liability threshold model. Whereas schizophrenia-spectrum disorders seem to be mostly associated with polygenic risk for schizophrenia, having an additive effect with well-replicated environmental factors, affective psychosis seems to be a product of cumulative environmental insults alongside a higher genetic liability for affective disorders.</p>","PeriodicalId":21530,"journal":{"name":"Schizophrenia Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1254-1265"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12414556/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142807908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gregory P Strauss, Elaine F Walker, Nathan T Carter, Lauren Luther, Vijay A Mittal
{"title":"The Negative Symptom Inventory-Psychosis Risk (NSI-PR): Psychometric Validation of the Final 11-Item Version.","authors":"Gregory P Strauss, Elaine F Walker, Nathan T Carter, Lauren Luther, Vijay A Mittal","doi":"10.1093/schbul/sbae206","DOIUrl":"10.1093/schbul/sbae206","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and hypotheses: </strong>The lack of psychometrically validated assessment tools designed specifically to assess negative symptoms in individuals at clinical high risk (CHR) for psychosis represents a significant barrier to the early identification and prevention of psychosis. To address this need, the Negative Symptom Inventory-Psychosis Risk (NSI-PR) was developed based on the iterative, data-driven approach recommended by the National Institute of Mental Health consensus conference on negative symptoms.</p><p><strong>Study design: </strong>This manuscript reports the results of the second study phase that psychometrically validates the final 11-item version of the scale in data collected across 3 sites. A total of 222 participants (144 CHR and 78 clinical help-seeking controls) completed the NSI-PR, 1 week of ecological momentary assessment (EMA), and additional convergent and discriminant validity measures.</p><p><strong>Study results: </strong>Structural analyses replicated the previously reported strong fit for the 5-factor (anhedonia, avolition, asociality, alogia, and blunted affect) and hierarchical structures (2 super-ordinate dimensions and 5 lower-level domains). The 5 domains and 2 dimensions generally demonstrated good internal consistency, temporal stability, and interrater reliability. Convergent validity was demonstrated in relation to the 16-item beta version of the NSI-PR, Structured Interview for Psychosis-risk Syndromes negative subscale, Global Functioning Scale social and role, and EMA measures. Discriminant validity was supported by low correlations with positive, disorganized, and general psychiatric symptoms.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Findings indicate the final 11-item version of the NSI-PR has sound psychometric properties. The scale, which is designed specifically for CHR individuals, is brief and appropriate for use in research and clinical contexts. Accompanying training materials have been developed to support its use in multisite trials.</p>","PeriodicalId":21530,"journal":{"name":"Schizophrenia Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1380-1389"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12414547/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142807910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Suzanne E Gerritsen, Koen Bolhuis, Larissa S van Bodegom, Athanasios Maras, Mathilde M Overbeek, Therese A M J van Amelsvoort, Dieter Wolke, Giovanni de Girolamo, Tomislav Franić, Jason Madan, Fiona McNicholas, Moli Paul, Diane Purper-Ouakil, Paramala Santosh, Ulrike M E Schulze, Swaran P Singh, Cathy Street, Sabine Tremmery, Helena Tuomainen, Gwen C Dieleman, Esther Mesman
{"title":"The Association Between Trajectories of Self-reported Psychotic Experiences and Continuity of Mental Health Care in a Longitudinal Cohort of Adolescents and Young Adults.","authors":"Suzanne E Gerritsen, Koen Bolhuis, Larissa S van Bodegom, Athanasios Maras, Mathilde M Overbeek, Therese A M J van Amelsvoort, Dieter Wolke, Giovanni de Girolamo, Tomislav Franić, Jason Madan, Fiona McNicholas, Moli Paul, Diane Purper-Ouakil, Paramala Santosh, Ulrike M E Schulze, Swaran P Singh, Cathy Street, Sabine Tremmery, Helena Tuomainen, Gwen C Dieleman, Esther Mesman","doi":"10.1093/schbul/sbae136","DOIUrl":"10.1093/schbul/sbae136","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and hypothesis: </strong>Young people (YP) with psychotic experiences (PE) have an increased risk of developing a psychiatric disorder. Therefore, knowledge on continuity of care from child and adolescent (CAMHS) to adult mental health services (AMHS) in relation to PE is important. Here, we investigated whether the self-reported trajectories of persistent PE were associated with likelihood of transition to AMHS and mental health outcomes.</p><p><strong>Study design: </strong>In this prospective cohort study, interviews and questionnaires were used to assess PE, mental health, and service use in 763 child and adolescent mental health service users reaching their service's upper age limit in 8 European countries. Trajectories of self-reported PE (3 items) from baseline to 24-month follow-up were determined using growth mixture modeling (GMM). Associations were assessed with auxiliary variables and using mixed models. Study results. At baseline, 56.7% of YP reported PE. GMM identified 5 trajectories over 24 months: medium increasing (5.2%), medium stable (11.7%), medium decreasing (6.5%), high decreasing (4.2%), and low stable (72.4%). PE trajectories were not associated with continuity of specialist care or transition to AMHS. Overall, YP with PE reported more mental health problems at baseline. Persistence of PE or an increase was associated with poorer outcomes at follow-up.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>PE are common among CAMHS users when reaching the upper age limit of CAMHS. Persistence or an increase of PE was associated with poorer mental health outcomes, poorer prognosis, and impaired functioning, but were less discriminative for continuity of care.</p>","PeriodicalId":21530,"journal":{"name":"Schizophrenia Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1282-1295"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12414552/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141902808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Advancing the Prevention of Severe Mental Illness: Insights and Future Directions from a Public Health Perspective.","authors":"Peng Zhou, Xiaoyu Zhu","doi":"10.1093/schbul/sbaf141","DOIUrl":"10.1093/schbul/sbaf141","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21530,"journal":{"name":"Schizophrenia Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1182-1183"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12414545/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144862375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monica E Calkins, Arielle Ered, Tyler M Moore, Lauren K White, Jerome Taylor, Alexander B Moxam, Kosha Ruparel, Daniel H Wolf, Theodore D Satterthwaite, Christian G Kohler, Ruben C Gur, Raquel E Gur
{"title":"Development and Validation of a Brief Age-Normed Screening Tool for Subthreshold Psychosis Symptoms in Youth.","authors":"Monica E Calkins, Arielle Ered, Tyler M Moore, Lauren K White, Jerome Taylor, Alexander B Moxam, Kosha Ruparel, Daniel H Wolf, Theodore D Satterthwaite, Christian G Kohler, Ruben C Gur, Raquel E Gur","doi":"10.1093/schbul/sbae224","DOIUrl":"10.1093/schbul/sbae224","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and hypothesis: </strong>Improvements in screening tools for early subthreshold psychosis symptoms are needed to facilitate early identification and intervention efforts, especially given the challenges of rapidly differentiating age-appropriate experiences from potential early signs of emerging psychosis. Tools can be lengthy and time-consuming, impacting their utility and accessibility across clinical settings, and age-normed data are limited. To address this gap, we sought to develop and validate a brief, empirically derived, age-normed, subthreshold psychosis screening tool, for public use.</p><p><strong>Study design: </strong>Computerized adaptive test simulation was used to derive a 5-item short form with age norm equivalencies from a 12-item PRIME-Screen-Revised (PRIME-12) administered to 7053 youth (Mage = 15.8, SD = 2.7; 54% female; 33% Black). Concurrent validity was assessed (n = 758) using contemporaneous administration of the PRIME-5 and the Structured Interview for Prodromal Syndromes. Comparability of criterion-related validity of the PRIME-5, PRIME-12, and Scale of Prodromal Symptoms (SOPS) was assessed by relating scores to psychosis-risk-relevant criteria. Finally, self-report versus assessor-administered PRIME total scores were compared (n = 131) to assess their concurrent validity.</p><p><strong>Study results: </strong>Correlations among PRIME-5, PRIME-12, and SOPS were comparable and moderate, supporting their convergent validity. The PRIME-5 also showed comparable criterion-related validity, demonstrating similar relationships with psychosis-risk indicators as the other tools. Self-reported and assessor-administered PRIME-5 were moderately correlated.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Public availability of a brief, age-normed, and validated screening tool-which can be assessor or self-administered-will expedite and improve early identification of youth (age 11 and older) at risk for psychosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":21530,"journal":{"name":"Schizophrenia Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1242-1253"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12414555/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142954208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diagnostic Change From Bipolar Disorder to Schizophrenia and Schizophrenia to Bipolar Disorder Makes No Sense: The New Diagnosis Should Be Sequential Schizoaffective Disorder.","authors":"João Gama-Marques","doi":"10.1093/schbul/sbaf106","DOIUrl":"10.1093/schbul/sbaf106","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21530,"journal":{"name":"Schizophrenia Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1179"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12414544/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144837580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Risk Factors for Late-Onset Psychosis: A Case-Control Study.","authors":"Joseph P Skinner, Ann K Shinn, Lauren V Moran","doi":"10.1093/schbul/sbae164","DOIUrl":"10.1093/schbul/sbae164","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and hypothesis: </strong>The onset of schizophrenia occurs after the age of 40 in up to 20% of cases. We aim to depict risk factors for first-episode psychosis after the age of 40 by comparing late-onset psychosis (LOP) patients to healthy age-matched controls.</p><p><strong>Study design: </strong>In this case-control study using electronic health records, 142 individuals aged 40-65 years with an encounter for a first episode of psychosis between 2013 and 2021 were included. Four controls (N = 568) were matched to each case on age, sex, race, and year of encounter. Potential risk factors for the primary analysis were captured via structured data and text-mining of medical notes. Conditional logistic regression models were used to assess the odds of LOP with potential risk factors.</p><p><strong>Study results: </strong>After adjusting for all variables in the main analysis, odds for LOP were increased by immigration (OR 3.30, 95% CI, 1.56-6.98), depression (OR 3.58, 95% CI, 2.01-6.38), anxiety (OR 2.12, 95% CI, 1.20-3.75), cannabis use (OR 3.00, 95% CI, 1.36-6.61), alcohol use disorder (OR 5.46, 95% CI, 2.41-12.36), polysubstance use (OR 4.22, 95% CI, 1.30-13.7), severe trauma (OR 2.29, 95% CI, 1.08-4.48), and caregiver burden (OR 15.26, 95% CI, 3.85-60.48).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Life stressors along with the effects of substance use and other psychiatric conditions may confer some risk to the development of LOP. Replication is required in independent prospective studies. Further research is necessary to truly parse out which of these factors belong on the causal pathway.</p>","PeriodicalId":21530,"journal":{"name":"Schizophrenia Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"1417-1427"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12414548/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142392994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}