Early Intervention in Psychiatry
July 1, 2026
Yiğit Özaydın, Buket Canlan Özaydın
Early-onset psychosis and anorexia nervosa, while traditionally conceptualised as distinct disorders, demonstrate significant clinical overlap, particularly during adolescence. This period of profound bodily and identity transformation is a critical window where both conditions can emerge, sometimes with complex, overlapping symptoms. However, existing explanatory frameworks often fail to...
Early Intervention in Psychiatry
May 1, 2026
Ilaria Domenicano, Alice Onofrio, Domenico De Donatis et al.
ABSTRACT Aim This study aimed to investigate the association between cannabis use prior to enrollment in a First Episode Psychosis (FEP) program and prognosis, including severity of psychiatric symptoms, type of antipsychotic treatment prescribed, and clinical recovery. Methods A longitudinal cohort study was conducted on patients aged 18–35 diagnosed with affective and non‐affective psychosis...
Early Intervention in Psychiatry
November 1, 2025
U. Chhagan, Vuyokazi Ntlantsana, E. Karim et al.
To describe the current and lifetime patterns of substance use, particularly cannabis, and its association with clinical presentation of individuals presenting with first episode psychosis, living with and without HIV, in KwaZulu‐Natal Province, South Africa.
Early Intervention in Psychiatry
November 1, 2024
Massimo Ballerini, Eleonora Rossi, Emanuele Cassioli et al.
4 citations
Psychotic-like anomalous self-experiences (ASEs) are core and early features of schizophrenia spectrum disorders, which have been recently also postulated to underlie embodiment disturbance in feeding and eating disorders (FEDs). The present study was aimed at investigating the interplay between ASEs and specific psychopathology in FED. Ninety persons with Anorexia Nervosa and 41 with Bulimia...
Early Intervention in Psychiatry
July 1, 2024
Amanda Taylor, Kathleen Wright, Rachel M Roberts et al.
4 citations
Mindfulness-based interventions have been tested as preventive programs for childhood internalizing difficulties, but most research has been at a 'universal' level with small to null effects. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Children (MBCT-C) has similar effects to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) when used as a small-group, targeted preventive program. Knowledge gaps include the...
Early Intervention in Psychiatry
December 8, 2023
Giuseppe Pierpaolo Merola, Andrea Patti, Davide Benedetti et al.
2 citations
AIM: Aberrant salience (AS) and psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) have been proven to be linked. Moreover, anxiety is a key symptom in psychosis-prone subjects and most psychotic patients. We propose a model that attempts to interpret the role of PLEs in the association between AS and anxiety among healthy controls and psychotic patients. METHODS: Demographic and psychometric data (Aberrant...
Early Intervention in Psychiatry
September 1, 2023
Mawada Ghanem, Christian Evangeli-Dawson, Anna Georgiades
26 citations
Culture has been posited to be involved in the formation and maintenance of delusions and hallucinations. The extent of these differences and how they affect explanatory models of psychosis and help-seeking attitudes remains to be understood. This review aims to present a cultural formulation to account for psychosis onset, symptom maintenance, and help-seeking attitudes. A narrative review was...
Early Intervention in Psychiatry
July 2, 2023
Marija Krcmar, Cassandra Wannan, Suzie Lavoie et al.
6 citations
AIM: Basic self disturbance is a putative core vulnerability marker of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. The primary aims of the Self, Neuroscience and Psychosis (SNAP) study are to: (1) empirically test a previously described neurophenomenological self-disturbance model of psychosis by examining the relationship between specific clinical, neurocognitive, and neurophysiological variables in UHR...
Early Intervention in Psychiatry
March 1, 2023
Lachlan Kent, Barnaby Nelson, Georg Northoff
35 citations
Time is a core aspect of psychopathology with potential for clinical use and early intervention. Temporal experience, perception, judgement and processing are distorted in various psychiatric disorders such as mood (depression and mania), anxiety, autistic, impulse-control, dissociative and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders. Can these disorders of time be used as early diagnostic or...
Early Intervention in Psychiatry
December 1, 2022
Maria Isaacson, Cassie M Hazell, John Cape et al.
Clinical assessments are vital for gaining an understanding of a patients' presenting problem. A priority for Early Intervention in Psychosis Service staff is understanding and supporting their patients' experiences of hallucinations and/or delusions. We aimed to identify what cognitive-phenomenology dimensions of hallucinations and delusions EIPS staff were assessing with their patients. We...
Early Intervention in Psychiatry
May 16, 2021
L. Marino, Samantha Jankowski, R. Kent et al.
Cannabis use is common among individuals with first episode psychosis (FEP) and persistent use is associated with worse outcomes. The purpose of this qualitative study is to identify factors pertaining to onset of cannabis use and persistent use among young adults with early psychosis receiving coordinated specialty care (CSC) in the United States and begin to develop a theoretical framework to...
Early Intervention in Psychiatry
August 1, 2020
Angela A T Schuurmans, Karin S Nijhof, Ron H. J. Scholte et al.
Many youth in residential care suffer from post-traumatic symptoms that have adverse effects on a range of psychological, behavioural and physiological outcomes. Although current evidence-based treatment options are effective, they have their limitations. Meditation interventions are an alternative to traditional trauma-focused treatment. This pilot study aimed to evaluate three game-based...
Early Intervention in Psychiatry
June 1, 2019
Barnaby Nelson, Emily Li, David C Cicero et al.
39 citations
The Inventory of Psychotic-Like Anomalous Self-Experiences (IPASE) is a self-report measure of minimal self-disturbance. The aim of the current report was to assess the construct validity of the scale by examining its convergent validity with the gold-standard measure of minimal self-disturbance, the Examination of Anomalous Self-Experience (EASE), and its discriminant validity. The sample...
Early Intervention in Psychiatry
October 1, 2018
S. Riches, Rich Maskey, R. Waddingham et al.
AIM: To improve public understanding of the subjective experience of auditory hallucinations and increase empathy towards individuals who hear voices and have other unusual sensory experiences. METHODS: This pilot study developed a new immersive art exhibition, Altered States of Consciousness, which gave members of the public an individualized voice-hearing simulation experience in 2 real-world...
Early Intervention in Psychiatry
February 1, 2013
Renate Van der Valk, Susanna Van de Waerdt, Carin J Meijer et al.
Recently, a mindfulness therapy for people with psychotic disorders was developed. However, clinicians and researchers are cautious given case reports in which extensive meditation provoked psychotic symptoms in people with a psychotic disorder. The purpose of this study was to examine the feasibility, adverse effects and possible favourable effects of mindfulness-based therapy (MBT) in people...