Elena Monducci

Developmental vulnerability to psychosis: Selective aggregation of basic self-disturbance in early onset schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia Research November 2018 Andrea Raballo, Elena Monducci, Mauro Ferrara et al.

Trait-like anomalies of subjective experience (aka, Basic Self-disturbance or Self-disorder, SD) have been empirically identified as schizophrenia-specific markers of vulnerability in several clinical and genetic high-risk populations. However, such specificity is still to be tested in developmental years, where emerging psychopathology is less crystallized and diagnostic boundaries more...