Psychiatry Res
November 2019
Extensive research indicates that elevated intra-individual variability (IIV) of reaction time is associated with subclinical psychosis, as well as clinically diagnosed psychotic disorder. However, findings regarding the details of this relationship are equivocal. In particular, it is unknown whether associations between elevated IIV and subclinical psychosis are specific to certain psychotic symptoms or to complex reaction time tasks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIf schizotypy is a taxonic liability for schizophrenia with a general population prevalence of ~10%, it should also be taxonic among biological siblings of probands with schizophrenia. Moreover, assuming this is so, siblings' schizotypy class membership should be predicted by probands' familial load for psychotic disorder and clinical severity, consistent with a multifactorial polygenic threshold model of schizophrenia. We tested these hypotheses in the Genetic Risk and Outcome of Psychosis (GROUP) Study where siblings of probands (n = 792) and unaffected controls (n = 559) provided self-report ratings on the Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences (CAPE).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Meehl regarded schizotypy as a categorial liability for schizophrenia that is the product of genes, environment, and gene-environment interactions. We sought to test whether schizophrenia-related genotypes and environmental risk factors predict membership in classes defined by taxometric analyses of positive (cognitive-perceptual), negative (interpersonal), and disorganized schizotypy.
Methods: Participants (n = 500) completed the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire (SPQ) and provided information on the following risk factors: cannabis use, pregnancy and obstetric complications, social adjustment, and family history of psychosis.
Background: Older paternal age predicts schizophrenia diagnosis in offspring. If this relationship reflects a pathogenic process, paternal age should predict the expression of subclinical schizophrenia liability (schizotypy). We hypothesized that paternal and maternal ages predict positive, negative, and disorganized features of schizotypy, that family history of psychosis moderates the relationship of paternal age with schizotypy, and that stress sensitivity mediates the relationship of maternal age with schizotypy.
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