Richard P Bentall

..A qualitative study will examine the interventions' mechanisms of change, and also GPs' drivers and barriers towards referral...

..The approach we advocate integrates findings from neurodevelopmental research with research on typical cognitive and sociocognitive development and the psychology of psychotic symptoms...

..Some of these processes have recently been implicated in violent behaviour, and they therefore have the potential to explain the apparent association between paranoid delusions and offending...

..To determine whether cognitive therapy is effective in preventing the worsening of emerging psychotic symptoms experienced by help seeking young people deemed to be at risk for serious conditions such as schizophrenia...

..Follow-up rate at 3 years was 47%. There appear to be enduring benefits of CT over the long term, suggesting that it is an efficacious intervention for people at high risk of developing psychosis...

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..We address this imbalance by reporting here the findings of the first study to explore heuristic reasoning in people with persecutory delusions...

..To design a brief measure to assess both the severity of paranoid thinking and the perceived deservedness of persecution, which can be employed in clinical and non-clinical populations...

..CONCLUSIONS: PM and BM paranoia may represent separate phases of an unstable phenomenon. The findings are consistent with an attributional account of paranoid thinking...

..We report on the rationale and design for a large-scale, multi-site randomized, controlled trial of CT for people who are assessed to be at high risk of psychosis because of either state or state-plus-trait risk factors...

..We investigated whether unstable self-esteem is a characteristic of bipolar disorder in remission...

..To estimate the effect of insight on time to relapse and readmission and on social function and symptoms after following up a cohort of first-episodes of nonaffective psychosis for 18 months...

..Attributions play an important role in depression and paranoia. However, contrary to most attributional models of psychopathology, there is evidence that attributional style is not a stable trait but is affected by recent experiences...

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..The aim of this study was to illuminate patients' understanding of the nature and purpose and outcomes of a trial designed to improve the management of neuroleptic medication...

..Support for this hypothesis comes from studies demonstrating that remitted and manic bipolar patients show similar cognitive biases to currently depressed patients...

..CONCLUSIONS: Benefits of the intervention were maintained at 2 years. Delaying treatment is associated with reduced efficacy and required more intensive therapy...

..The neurobiological mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here we examine reinforcement learning and sensitivity to both reward and punishment outcomes in hypomania-prone individuals not receiving pharmacotherapy...

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..Advances in the ability to identify people at high risk of developing psychosis have generated interest in the possibility of preventing psychosis...

..This paper highlights important issues underlying the extraction of attributions from paranoid talk, and discusses the implications for attributional models of paranoia and future discourse-based research in this area...

..To study the role of self-discrepancies in different phases of bipolar disorder (manic-depression)...

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..CONCLUSIONS: Hypomania (and possibly mania) may be products of ineffective styles of coping with negative emotions...

..Strong evidence exists for an association between childhood trauma, particularly childhood sexual abuse, and hallucinations in schizophrenia. Hallucinations are also well-documented symptoms in people with bipolar affective disorder...

..It is possible that this contributes to their performance on reasoning measures. The role of self-schemas in paranoid thinking needs to be studied further...

..CONCLUSIONS: Cognitive and personality factors appear to characterize people at high-risk of developing psychosis and are associated with their distressing experiences. The clinical implications of these findings are discussed...

..CONCLUSIONS: Theory of mind deficits are found in currently symptomatic bipolar patients. These findings add to growing evidence that common mechanisms may contribute to bipolar affective disorder and schizophrenia...

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..Results are presented in light of the existing literature and clinical implications are discussed...

..In this study, we reappraise the psychological significance of the CAR model of antipsychotic drug action; and we relate this to contemporary psychological theories of paranoia...

..Although patient variables such as insight and symptoms that contribute toward attitudes have been identified, the contributions of relationship and service factors have not been adequately studied...

..This study set out to test this hypothesis and address limitations of previous research...

..These results are consistent with the hypothesis that paranoia is associated with dysfunctional strategies of self-esteem regulation...

..External constraints on heroin use may not provide a basis for success in this treatment modality...

..The lack of attributional abnormalities in the Asperger's group suggests that their low-level paranoid symptoms arise as a consequence of different mechanisms than those involved in psychotic delusions...

..There appear to be opportunities for greater dialogue between indigenous and religious healers and allopathic doctors and this could contribute to a more integrative model of care for individuals with psychotic experiences in Uganda...