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      Stress-reactivity in psychosis: evidence for an affective pathway to psychosis.

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      Clinical psychology review
      Elsevier BV

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          This paper will review a series of studies using the Experience Sampling Method that suggest that altered sensitivity to stress is an endophenotype for psychosis. The Experience Sampling Method is a structured diary technique allowing the assessment of emotional reactivity to stressors occurring in normal daily life. Elevated emotional reactivity to stress was found in subjects vulnerable to psychosis, suggesting that affective responses to stressors in the flow of daily life are an indicator of genetic and/or environmental liability to psychosis. Indeed, the small stressors in daily life associated with affective responses also predict more intense moment-to-moment variation of subtle positive psychotic experiences. Increased emotional reactivity was found to be independent from cognitive impairments, and argued to constitute evidence of an affective pathway to psychosis that may underlie a more episodic, reactive, good-outcome type of psychosis. Evidence for this hypothesis was found in data suggesting that the experience of stressful life events and early trauma were associated with increased stress-sensitivity, and that women were more likely to display elevated stress-reactivity. These findings are discussed in the light of recent biological and psychological mechanisms.

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          Journal
          Clin Psychol Rev
          Clinical psychology review
          Elsevier BV
          0272-7358
          0272-7358
          May 2007
          : 27
          : 4
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, South Limburg Mental Health Research and Teaching Network, EURON, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands. i.germeys@sp.unimaas.nl
          Article
          S0272-7358(06)00117-6
          10.1016/j.cpr.2006.09.005
          17222489
          fc396c80-2fff-40ac-8db2-ce4adf213a59
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