............................................................................ ii Acknowledgements.............................................................. iv Table of contents................................................................. vi Index of tables..................................................................... xi Index of figures................................................

BACKGROUND SPEM dysfunction is a well-known phenomenon in schizophrenia. The principal aim of the present study was to examine whether SPEM dysfunction is already observable in subjects scoring high on a specific measure of schizotypy (SSQ General Schizotypy) that was selected because of its intimate relationship with schizophrenic prodromal unfolding. METHODS Applying ANOVAs, we determined t...

This article introduces and reviews the history of the construct of schizotypy for the special section appearing in the journal. Schizotypy offers a useful construct for understanding the etiology, development, and expression of schizophrenia-spectrum psychopathology and a unifying construct for linking a broad continuum of clinical and subclinical manifestations. The article reviews the descri...

'Every work of art is an uncommitted crime' Adorno (1951). Cited in Julius (2002). Given the putative relationship between creativity and schizotypy/psychoticism, the current study set out to investigate differences in scores on a range of personality and creativity measures between visual artists and non-artists. Results found that the visual artists group scored higher on measures of positive...

This study assessed the extent to which within-individual variation in schizotypy and paranormal belief influenced performance on probabilistic reasoning tasks. A convenience sample of 725 non-clinical adults completed measures assessing schizotypy (Oxford-Liverpool Inventory of Feelings and Experiences; O-Life brief), belief in the paranormal (Revised Paranormal Belief Scale; RPBS) and probabi...

Objective: The relationship between obsessive-compulsive and schizotypal symptoms has been repeatedly mentioned in various studies, but the exact pattern of this relationship is still unclear. Recently, Inference Based Approach (IBA) tries to explain this relationship through the inferential confusion (IC). This study aimed to determine the mediating role of the inferential confusion in the rel...

Auditory latent inhibition (LI) and schizotypy were measured in (n=54), showing that LI was an inverted-U function of schizotypy score. Only average levels of schizotypy were associated with undiminished LI while both lowand high-SPQ subjects showed reduced LI. No relationship was found between LI and either psychoticism or any of the ®ve NEO PI-R domains. These results complement the similar c...

Expressed emotion (EE) is a rating of criticism, hostility, and emotional over-involvement from carer towards person experiencing mental distress. High EE denotes family stress associated with greater severity substance use. Little known about how perceived by patients history use disorder (SUD). The aim the present study was to investigate among users its association use, schizotypy, depressio...