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Overview

Eva Velthorst is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas within medicine and psychology, contributing extensively to the fields of psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, and social psychology. They have also conducted work intersecting genetics and cognitive neuroscience.

The main topics covered in their research include schizophrenia research and treatment, mental health treatment and access, bipolar disorder and treatment, genetic associations and epidemiology, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, mental health research topics, and health disparities and outcomes.

Velthorst has a significant publication record with noted recent papers such as:

  • Economic hardship and mental health complaints during COVID-19, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Social disadvantage, linguistic distance, ethnic minority status and first-episode psychosis: results from the EU-GEI case-control study, 2020, Psychological Medicine
  • The EUropean Network of National Schizophrenia Networks Studying Gene-Environment Interactions (EU-GEI): Incidence and First-Episode Case-Control Programme, 2020, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
  • Daily use of high-potency cannabis is associated with more positive symptoms in first-episode psychosis patients: the EU-GEI case-control study, 2020, Psychological Medicine
  • Dysregulated Lipid Metabolism Precedes Onset of Psychosis, 2020, Biological Psychiatry

Their work is frequently published in venues such as Psychological Medicine, Schizophrenia Bulletin, Schizophrenia Research Cognition, Molecular Psychiatry, and Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.

Velthorst often collaborates with other researchers, with frequent coauthors including Jim van Os, Bart P. F. Rutten, Charlotte Gayer-Anderson, Hannah E. Jongsma, and Marta Di Forti.

Best Publications

  • The Psychosis High-Risk State: A Comprehensive State-of-the-Art Review

    Paolo Fusar-Poli;Stefan Borgwardt;Andreas Bechdolf;Jean Addington

  • The contribution of cannabis use to variation in the incidence of psychotic disorder across Europe (EU-GEI): a multicentre case-control study

    Marta Di Forti;Marta Di Forti;Marta Di Forti;Diego Quattrone;Diego Quattrone;Diego Quattrone;Tom P. Freeman;Giada Tripoli

  • Environmental risk factors for autism: an evidence-based review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

    Amirhossein Modabbernia;Eva Velthorst;Abraham Reichenberg

  • Identifying Gene-Environment Interactions in Schizophrenia: Contemporary Challenges for Integrated, Large-scale Investigations

    Jim van Os;Jim van Os;Bart P. Rutten;Inez Myin-Germeys;Philippe Delespaul

  • Economic hardship and mental health complaints during COVID-19.

    Dirk Witteveen;Eva Velthorst

  • The 20-Year Longitudinal Trajectories of Social Functioning in Individuals With Psychotic Disorders

    Eva Velthorst;Anne-Kathrin J. Fett;Avraham Reichenberg;Greg Perlman

  • Patterns of Nonsocial and Social Cognitive Functioning in Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

    Tjasa Velikonja;Anne-Kathrin Fett;Eva Velthorst

  • Baseline differences in clinical symptomatology between ultra high risk subjects with and without a transition to psychosis.

    Eva Velthorst;Dorien H. Nieman;Hiske E. Becker;Reinaud van de Fliert

  • Trauma and recent life events in individuals at ultra high risk for psychosis: review and meta-analysis.

    Tamar Kraan;Eva Velthorst;Eva Velthorst;Filip Smit;Filip Smit;Lieuwe de Haan

  • Childhood bullying and the association with psychosis in non-clinical and clinical samples: a review and meta-analysis.

    D. S. van Dam;E. van der Ven;E. Velthorst;J. P. Selten

  • Ultra high-risk state for psychosis and non-transition: a systematic review.

    Andor E. Simon;Eva Velthorst;Dorien H. Nieman;Don Linszen

  • Adapted cognitive–behavioural therapy required for targeting negative symptoms in schizophrenia: meta-analysis and meta-regression

    E. Velthorst;M. Koeter;M. van der Gaag;D. H. Nieman

  • Long-term Changes in Cognitive Functioning in Individuals With Psychotic Disorders: Findings From the Suffolk County Mental Health Project

    Anne Kathrin J. Fett;Anne Kathrin J. Fett;Anne Kathrin J. Fett;Eva Velthorst;Abraham Reichenberg;Abraham Reichenberg;Camilo J. Ruggero

  • Moving beyond transition outcomes: Meta-analysis of remission rates in individuals at high clinical risk for psychosis

    Andor E. Simon;Andor E. Simon;Stefan Borgwardt;Anita Riecher-Rössler;Eva Velthorst

  • Disability in people clinically at high risk of psychosis

    Eva Velthorst;Dorien H. Nieman;Don Linszen;Hiske Becker

  • Cannabis use and transition to psychosis in individuals at ultra-high risk: review and meta-analysis

    T. Kraan;E. Velthorst;L. Koenders;K. Zwaart

  • Childhood abuse and neglect in relation to the presence and persistence of psychotic and depressive symptomatology.

    D. S. van Dam;M. van Nierop;W. Viechtbauer;E. Velthorst

  • Neurocognitive functioning before and after the first psychotic episode: does psychosis result in cognitive deterioration?

    H. E. Becker;D. H. Nieman;S. Wiltink;P. M. Dingemans

  • To cut a short test even shorter: reliability and validity of a brief assessment of intellectual ability in schizophrenia--a control-case family study

    Eva Velthorst;Stephen Z. Levine;Cecile Henquet;Lieuwe de Haan

  • Psychosis Prediction: Stratification of Risk Estimation With Information-Processing and Premorbid Functioning Variables

    Dorien H Nieman;Stephan Ruhrmann;Sara Dragt;Francesca Soen

  • [The 20-Year longitudinal trajectories of social functioning in individuals with psychotic disorders].

    M Oorschot;A K J Fett;E Velthorst

Frequent Co-Authors

Bart P. F. Rutten
Bart P. F. Rutten Maastricht University Medical Centre
Craig Morgan
Craig Morgan King's College London
James B. Kirkbride
James B. Kirkbride University College London
Julio Bobes
Julio Bobes University of Oviedo
Julio Sanjuan
Julio Sanjuan University of Valencia
Celso Arango
Celso Arango Complutense University of Madrid
Ulrich Reininghaus
Ulrich Reininghaus Heidelberg University
Miguel Bernardo
Miguel Bernardo University of Barcelona
Pierre-Michel Llorca
Pierre-Michel Llorca University of Clermont Auvergne
Mark van der Gaag
Mark van der Gaag Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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