Dr.(Prof.) Jan Stochl

Psychotic experiences (PE) co-occur with depression and anxiety, and indicate severity of general mental distress. Identifying PE in primary care mental health settings may facilitate access...

Background An increasing importance is being placed on mental health and wellbeing at individual and population levels. While there are several interventions that have been proposed to impr...

We investigated relationships between early developmental milestones, schizophrenia incidence and variability in its age at onset. We hypothesized that the period of risk for schizophrenia w...

Background Many people who have common mental disorders, such as depression and anxiety, also have some psychotic experiences. These experiences are associated with higher clinical complexi...

Association of inflammation with symptoms that are commonly shared between psychiatric disorders may help to explain the apparent trans-diagnostic effect of inflammation, which is associated...

Although the association between low-grade inflammation and depression is well established, few studies have investigated this association at the symptom level. We studied the longitudinal a...

Background Importance: Associations between childhood infection, IQ and adult non-affective psychosis (NAP) are well established. However, examination of sensitive periods for exposure, eff...

Background Low-grade inflammation is associated with depression, but studies of specific symptoms are relatively scarce. Association between inflammatory markers and specific symptoms may p...

Background: There is growing support for a hierarchical structure of first and higher-order dimensions of psychopathological symptoms, however, little is known about how these dimensions rel...

Background Schizophrenia is associated with impaired neurodevelopment as indexed by lower premorbid IQ. We examined associations between erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), a marker of lo...