Christian Theisen, Marlene Rosen, Eva Meisenzahl, Nikolaos Koutsouleris, Theresa Lichtenstein, Stephan Ruhrmann, Joseph Kambeitz, Lana Kambeitz-Ilankovic, Anita Riecher-Rössler, Katharine Chisholm, Rachel Upthegrove, Linda A Antonucci, Alessandro Bertolino, Alessandro Pigoni, Raimo K R Salokangas, Christos Pantelis, Stephen J Wood, Rebekka Lencer, Peter Falkai, Jarmo Hietala, Paolo Brambilla, André Schmidt, Christina Andreou, Stefan Borgwardt, Naweed Osman, Frauke Schultze-Lutter
INTRODUCTION: The Attenuated Psychosis Symptoms (APS) syndrome mostly represents the ultra-high-risk state of psychosis but, as does the Brief Intermittent Psychotic Symptoms (BIPS) syndrome, shows a large variance in conversion rates. This may be due to the heterogeneity of APS/BIPS that may be related to the effects of culture, sex, age, and other psychiatric morbidities. Thus, we investigated the different thematic contents of APS and their association with sex, age, country, religion, comorbidity, and functioning to gain a better understanding of the psychosis-risk syndrome...
2023: Frontiers in Psychiatry