• Post-psychotic depression: Paranoia and the damage done 

      Moritz, Steffen; Schmidt, Stefanie; Lüdtke, Thies; Braunschneider, Lea-Elena; Manske, Alisa; Schneider, Brooke C.; Veckenstedt, Ruth (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-07-20)
      To mitigate the often chronic course of schizophrenia and improve functional outcome, researchers are increasingly interested in prodromal states and psychological risk factors that may predict the outbreak of psychotic symptoms, but are also amenable to change. In recent years, depressive symptoms have been proposed as precursors of psychosis and some interventional studies indicate that the ...
    • Seeing minds – a signal detection study of agency attribution along the autism-psychosis continuum 

      Lisøy, Rebekka Solvik; Biegler, Robert; Ebad Fardzadeh, Haghish; Veckenstedt, Ruth; Moritz, Steffen; Pfuhl, Gerit (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-05-17)
      Introduction - Diametrically aberrant mentalising biases, namely hypermentalising in psychosis and hypomentalising in autism, are postulated by some theoretical models. To test this hypothesis, we measured psychotic-like experiences, autistic traits and mentalising biases in a visual chasing paradigm.<p> <p>Methods - Participants from the general population (N = 300) and psychotic patients (N=26) ...