Over the past decade, our understanding of the role of stress in serious mental illness has
become more sophisticated. In this paper, we revisit the neural diathesis-stress model of …

This review will discuss the role of childhood trauma in bipolar disorders. Relevant studies
were identified via Medline (PubMed) and PsycINFO databases published up to and …

There is a growing body of research focused on the relationship between childhood trauma
and the risk of develo** psychosis. Numerous studies, including many large-scale …

Childhood trauma has been associated with long term effects on prefrontal-limbic grey
matter. A literature search was conducted to identify structural magnetic resonance imaging …

Background Studies of psychiatric populations have reported associations between
childhood adversity and volumes of stress-related brain structures. This meta-analysis …

In this review article, we outline the evidence linking attachment adversity to psychosis, from
the premorbid stages of the disorder to its clinical forms. To better understand the …

The present meta-analysis aimed to quantify sex differences in verbal working memory and
to examine potential moderators of these differences. We examined 802 effect sizes from …

Childhood maltreatment (CM) is one of the strongest predictors of adult mental illness,
although not all adults with CM develop psychopathology. Here, we describe the structure …

Objective: To present a systematic review of the literature on the associations between early
social environment, early life adversity, and social cognition in major psychiatric disorders …

Hippocampal atrophy is found in many psychiatric disorders that are more prevalent in
women. Sex differences in memory and spatial skills further suggest that males and females …