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• Schizophrenia.

  Schizophrenia is still one of the most mysterious and costliest mental disorders in terms of human suffering and societal expenditure. Here, we focus …

  Authors: Jim van Os, Shitij Kapur

  Source: Lancet. 2009 Aug 22

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• Are psychotic psychopathology and neurocognition orthogonal? A systematic review of their associations.

  A systematic review (58 studies, 5,009 individuals) is presented of associations between psychopathological dimensions of psychosis and measures of ne…

  Authors: Maria de Gracia Dominguez, Wolfgang Viechtbauer, Claudia J P Simons, Jim van Os, Lydia Krabbendam

  Source: Psychological bulletin. 2009 Jan

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• Stress-related negative affectivity and genetically altered serotonin transporter function: evidence of synergism in shaping risk of depression.

  CONTEXT: Genetic moderation of the depression-inducing effects of stressful life events (SLEs) has been reported, but findings suggest that genes may …

  Authors: Nele Jacobs, Gunter Kenis, Frenk Peeters, Catherine Derom, Robert Vlietinck, Jim van Os

  Source: Archives of general psychiatry. 2006 Sep

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• Investigating the association between neurocognition and psychosis in bipolar disorder: further evidence for the overlap with schizophrenia.

  OBJECTIVES: In schizophrenia, a distinction is made between psychosis with developmental and cognitive impairment on the one hand and psychosis withou…

  Authors: Nienke Jabben, Baer Arts, Lydia Krabbendam, Jim van Os

  Source: Bipolar disorders. 2009 Mar

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• Increased left striatal dopamine transmission in unaffected siblings of schizophrenia patients in response to acute metabolic stress.

  A genetic alteration in sensitivity to stress, mediated by mesolimbic hyperdopaminergia, is thought to play a role in the onset, exacerbation and rela…

  Authors: Jerome Brunelin, Thierry d'Amato, Jim Van Os, Nicolas Costes, Marie-Françoise Suaud Chagny, Mohamed Saoud

  Source: Psychiatry research. 2010 Feb 28

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• Managing complex patients on a medical psychiatric unit: an observational study of university hospital costs associated with medical service use, length of stay, and psychiatric intervention.

  OBJECTIVE: Although there is a suggestion that the medical psychiatric unit (MPU) may reduce length of hospital stay (LOS), little is known about cost…

  Authors: Carsten Leue, Ger Driessen, Jacqueline J Strik, Marjan Drukker, Reinhold W Stockbrügger, Petra M Kuijpers, Ad A Masclee, Jim van Os

  Source: Journal of psychosomatic research. 2010 Mar

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• Does the concept of "sensitization" provide a plausible mechanism for the putative link between the environment and schizophrenia?

  Previous evidence reviewed in Schizophrenia Bulletin suggests the importance of a range of different environmental factors in the development of psych…

  Authors: Dina Collip, Inez Myin-Germeys, Jim Van Os

  Source: Schizophrenia bulletin. 2008 Mar

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• Gene-environment interactions in schizophrenia: review of epidemiological findings and future directions.

  Concern is building about high rates of schizophrenia in large cities, and among immigrants, cannabis users, and traumatized individuals, some of whic…

  Authors: Jim van Os, Bart Pf Rutten, Richie Poulton

  Source: Schizophrenia bulletin. 2008 Nov

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• Effects of acute metabolic stress on the dopaminergic and pituitary-adrenal axis activity in patients with schizophrenia, their unaffected siblings and controls.

  A genetically mediated abnormal sensitivity to stress is thought to play a role in the onset, exacerbation and relapse of schizophrenia. In a double b…

  Authors: Jerome Brunelin, Thierry d'Amato, Jim van Os, Alain Cochet, Marie-Françoise Suaud-Chagny, Mohamed Saoud

  Source: Schizophrenia research. 2008 Mar

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• Subtle fluctuations in psychotic phenomena as functional states of abnormal dopamine reactivity in individuals at risk.

  BACKGROUND: Subjects at increased risk for psychosis experience continuous variation in the intensity of subtle psychotic experiences in response to m…

  Authors: Inez Myin-Germeys, Machteld Marcelis, Lydia Krabbendam, Philippe Delespaul, Jim van Os

  Source: Biological psychiatry. 2005 Jul 15

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