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

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 blurred. Thus, the current study explores the distribution of SD in adolescent help-seekers (age range 14 to 18) and tests the specificity of SD with respect to the severity of their diagnostic staging (Early Onset schizophrenia-spectrum psychosis [EOP], ultra high-risk [UHR] and clinical help-seeking controls [CHSC]).

Impairment in Social Functioning differentiates youth meeting Ultra-High Risk for psychosis criteria from other mental health help-seekers: A validation of the Italian version of the Global Functioning: Social and Global Functioning: Role scales.

Social and occupational impairments are present in the schizophrenia prodrome, and poor social functioning predicts transition to psychosis in Ultra-High Risk (UHR) individuals. We aimed to: 1) validate the Italian version of the Global Functioning: Social (GF: S) and Global Functioning: Role (GF: S) scales; 2) evaluate their association with UHR criteria. Participants were 12-21-years-old (age, mean=15.

Prevalence of psychotic-like experiences in young adults with social anxiety disorder and correlation with affective dysregulation.

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is associated with psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) and is a frequent diagnosis in the prodromal phases of psychosis. We investigated whether psychopathological factors could discriminate which subjects with SAD are more likely to develop PLEs. A sample of 128 young adults with SAD was split into two subsamples according to the presence of clinically relevant PLEs.

[Emerging mental disorders in a community sample of young adults in Italy: help-seeking in a Generalist Community Mental Health setting].

Aim: Delays in the admission to care of young adults with emerging mental disorders represent one of the current major concern in psychiatry. This delay, often experienced in clinical practice, has several determinants. One of these is "unexpressed help-seeking" that is influenced by cultural and historical backgrounds and by the characteristics of the disorder itself, but most of all by the way community mental health services are developed.

[Subtypes of psychotic-like experiences in a community sample of young adults: socio-demographic correlates and substance use].

Aim: This study aimed to investigate if particular psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) subtypes were more likely to be associated with a series of socio-demographic variables, with alcohol abuse and with cannabis or illicit drug use. The idea is to further characterize different PLEs subtypes in order to discloud their individual nature.

Methods: A cross-sectional design was conducted on a sample of 997 university students aged between 19 and 26 years, which belonged to 4 faculties of 2 different universities.

Psychotic experience subtypes, poor mental health status and help-seeking behaviour in a community sample of young adults.

Background: Different subtypes of psychotic experiences (PEs) have been identified in clinical and non-clinical samples. Researchers have considered these PEs to either be variations of personality or expressions of vulnerability to psychotic disorder. This study aimed to determine which particular subtypes of PEs were more likely to be associated with poor mental health status and help-seeking behaviour in a non-clinical sample of young adults.

[Characteristics in a sample of criminal mental hospital (Castiglione delle Stiviere) inmates discharged in the Lazio region].

Unlabelled: AIM. The aim of this study was: (i) To identify socio-demographic and clinical data in a sample of inmates in the Criminal Mental Hospital (CMH) at Castiglione delle Stiviere; (ii) to assess the presence of characteristics which could foresee the commission of a crime of psychiatric interest; (iii) to assess the frequency of crime repetition.

Materials And Methods: This study was carried out on a sample of 38 patients.

[History of psychiatric legislation in Italy].

The different models of mental illness which have followed one another in Italian psychiatry have been linked to the history of psychiatric legislation and its various attempts at reform. The first law of the newly United State which unified legislations and former procedures, whose prevalent psychiatric theories were those that referred to degeneration, was the law 36/1904 that set up the asylums. Accordingly psychiatric praxis was focused on social protection and custody, given that the mentally ill was seen as incurable; Fascism added the inmate's obligation to be enrolled in the judicial register.