The results suggest that early detection services help individuals cope with symptoms and potential stigmatization rather than enhancing or causing the latter. More emphasis should be put on the subjective experiences of those concerned when debating the advantages and disadvantages of early detection with regard to stigma. There was no evidence for increased perceived stigma and discrimination as a result of receiving information about the ARMS.

Our results suggest that CSD measurements extracted from clinical resting state EEG can help to improve the prediction of psychosis on a single-subject level.

The results provide evidence that women generally perform better in verbal learning and memory, independent of diagnostic group (ARMS, FEP, HC). The finding of a shorter reaction time for men in the working memory task could indicate that men have a superior working memory performance since they responded faster during the target trials, while maintaining a comparable overall working memory performance level.

agreement in emerging psychosis 2 AbstractAim: Research findings on the correlations between self-and observer-ratings of schizophrenic psychopathology are inconsistent and have rarely considered first episode psychosis (FEP) and at-risk mental state (ARMS) for psychosis patients. This study investigated these correlations in ARMS and FEP patients and how they are moderated by disease stage, illness insight, and gender. Methods:In the Basel Früherkennung von Psychosen (FePsy) study, positive and negative psychotic and affective symptoms were rated in 126 ARMS and 94 FEP patients using two observer and three self-rating scales. The agreement between selfand observer-ratings and the moderating influence of disease stage, illness insight, and gender was quantified using Pearson correlation and multiple regression models. Results:Correlations between self-and observer-rated subscales covering the same symptom dimension were low and mostly non-significant except for one correlation of positive and one of negative symptoms. There was no moderating influence of disease stage, illness insight, and gender on the correlations between selfand observer-ratings except for one higher association in positive symptoms in FEP compared to ARMS and in women compared to men. Conclusions:This study suggest that the agreement between self-and observerratings in FEP and ARMS patients is rather low, similar across symptom dimensions, and not dependent of illness insight, but partially of disease stage and gender. However, low correlations between self-and observer-ratings must not necessarily mean that these patients have difficulties reporting their symptoms. They could also have occurred because the scales did not exactly cover the same symptom dimensions.Keywords: gender, insight, observer-rating, psychosis, self-rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 IntroductionThe coherence between self-and observer-ratings assessing psychopathology is an emerging topic in current research. Observer-rating scales are considered objective measures of the severity of psychopathological symptoms in patients with a psychotic disorder, but they need a well-trained professional and are time-consuming. Self-rating scales, on the other hand, are less time-consuming and can also be applied by less trained professionals. However, it is unclear whether self-and observer-rating scales measure similar constructs and whether psychosis patients are able to report their symptoms with sufficient accuracy. 1Since schizophrenia patients have many features (e.g. poor insight, denial, delusions, cognitive deficits) that could hinder an accurate self-rating of their symptoms, it has long been assumed that self-ratings -especially of positive psychotic symptoms -are unreliable in these patients. 2, 3 However, our literature research revealed that at least five studies found a ...

We could confirm a 2- to 4-factor structure of the FCQ in a sample of at-risk mental state and first-episode psychosis patients using confirmatory factor analysis. Contrary to interview-assessed cognitive-perceptive BS, self-assessed BS do not seem to improve prediction of psychosis. This result reinforces reports of poor correspondence between interview- and questionnaire-assessed BS.