Josef Parnas

ORCID: 0000-0001-7864-295X
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Research Areas
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Neurology and Historical Studies
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Psychiatric care and mental health services
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices
  • Epilepsy research and treatment
  • Empathy and Medical Education
  • Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Embodied and Extended Cognition

University of Copenhagen
2016-2025

Copenhagen University Hospital
2005-2025

Glostrup Hospital
2016-2024

Capital Region of Denmark
2012-2018

Mental Health Services
2012-2018

The Capital Region Pharmacy
2016-2017

Hvidovre Hospital
2006-2016

Chongqing Electromechanical Holdings (China)
2014

Danish National Research Foundation
2004-2013

Fonds National de la Recherche
2012

Review Articles| October 06 2005 EASE: Examination of Anomalous Self-Experience Subject Area: Psychiatry and Psychology Josef Parnas; Parnas aDepartment Psychiatry, Hvidovre Hospital, University Copenhagen, Denmark; dDanish National Research Foundation, Center for Subjectivity Research, Denmark Search other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Paul Møller; Møller bUnit Mental Health Development, Division Buskerud Lier, Norway; Tilo Kircher; Kircher cDepartment Aachen,...

10.1159/000088441 article EN Psychopathology 2005-01-01

The “EAWE: Examination of Anomalous World Experience” is a detailed semi-structured interview format whose aim to elicit description and discussion person's experience various aspects their lived world. instrument grounded in the tradition phenomenological psychopathology aims explore, qualitatively rich manner, six key dimensions subjectivity - namely, of: (1) Space objects, (2) Time events, (3) Other persons, (4) Language (whether spoken or written), (5) Atmosphere (overall sense reality,...

10.1159/000454928 article EN Psychopathology 2017-01-01

In a prospective study of offspring schizophrenic mothers, perinatal complications reported in midwife protocols were analysed for those who, as adults, diagnosed schizophrenic, borderline or not suffering from mental illness. The schizophrenics found to have had the most complicated births, and borderlines, least births. This difference is interpreted terms 'diathesis-stress' model. It proposed that birth can decompensate individuals towards breakdown.

10.1192/bjp.140.4.416 article EN The British Journal of Psychiatry 1982-04-01

Objectives: To perform a long-term prospective follow-up of children at high risk for schizophrenia to identify factors the development this disorder. <h3>Design:</h3> Prospective population study schizophrenic mothers and their matched controls from age 15 years 42 years, with multiple diagnostic assessments performed by senior clinicians using structured interviews blindly respect group membership subject. <h3>Participants:</h3> Two hundred seven offspring 104 control without parents index...

10.1001/archpsyc.1993.01820210041005 article EN Archives of General Psychiatry 1993-09-01

Objective: Contemporary psychopathology, as a result of behaviourally dominated epistemological stance, downplays anomalies the patient's subjectivity. This neglect has probably deleterious consequences for research in causes and boundaries schizophrenia spectrum conditions. The purpose this study is to explore frequency qualitative, not‐yet‐psychotic, subjective experience patients with residual psychotic bipolar illness remission. Method: were examined Danish version Bonn Scale Assessment...

10.1034/j.1600-0447.2003.00105.x article EN Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 2003-06-19

• We reanalyzed the Copenhagen schizophrenia high-risk project data set to test recently developed models of antecedents predominantly negative and positive forms schizophrenia. Among a group 138 individuals, those at elevated genetic risk who suffered severe delivery complications were autonomic nonresponders during adolescence significantly more likely than without this pattern evidence outcomes with symptoms (86% vs 0.8%, respectively). 160 subjects, escaped complications, evidenced high...

10.1001/archpsyc.1990.01810190022003 article EN Archives of General Psychiatry 1990-07-01

Nonpsychotic anomalies of subjective experience were emphasized in both classic literature and phenomenological psychiatry as essential clinical features schizophrenia. However, only recent years, their topicality with respect to the construct validity concept schizophrenia spectrum has been explicitly acknowledged, mainly a consequence increasing focus on early detection prevention psychosis. The current study tested hypothesis specific aggregation self-disorders (SDs, various...

10.1093/schbul/sbp056 article EN cc-by-nc Schizophrenia Bulletin 2009-06-15

In a prospective longitudinal study of children severely schizophrenic mothers, premorbid behavioral data on individuals diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia spectrum disorder were compared with the same not any mental disorder. Future passive babies who exhibited short attention spans. school, they experienced interpersonal difficulties and displayed disturbing behavior, reflecting poor affective control. From clinical assessments at mean 15 years age, formal cognitive disturbance...

10.1001/archpsyc.1982.04290060020005 article EN Archives of General Psychiatry 1982-06-01

Introduction: Self-disorders (SD) have been described as a core feature of schizophrenia both in classical and recent psychopathological literature. However, the specificity SD for spectrum disorders has never demonstrated diagnostically heterogeneous sample, nor concurrent validity examined. Aim: (1) To examine Examination Anomalous Self-Experiences (EASE) measured to disorder first contact inpatients, (2) explore internal consistency factorial structure EASE, (3) assess by exploring...

10.1093/schbul/sbt239 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Schizophrenia Bulletin 2014-01-29

Concern has been expressed as to the reliability of clinical ICD-10 diagnosis schizophrenia. This study was designed assess diagnostic schizophrenia in a random sample Danish in- and outpatients with history psychosis. A 100 subjects assessed using operational criteria OPCRIT checklist for psychotic affective illness. The most recent principal compared diagnoses generated by instrument. Data documented very high sensitivity (93%) positive predictive value (87%) an overall good agreement...

10.1080/08039480510027698 article EN Nordic Journal of Psychiatry 2005-06-01

In most of the Western world, several projects are being implemented, focusing on pre-onset identification and early treatment schizophrenia other psychoses, based assumption that untreated illness becomes more chronic, socially invalidating resistant 1,2,3,4. this context, subtle (non-psychotic) qualitative anomalies subjective experience (such as disorders affect, perception, bodily experience, cognition, volition action) have regained status potential precursors schizophrenia, specific...

10.1002/j.2051-5545.2011.tb00057.x article EN World Psychiatry 2011-10-01

Since 1962 we have followd a sample of 207 children at high risk for schizophrenia as well 104 control children. For these individuals, the following factors and their interaction are related to an increased schizophrenic breakdown: (1) greater family backgrounds, (2) perinatal trauma, (3) unstable parenting public institutional child care. The difficulties positively adult periventricular atrophy. Results subsequent study tentatively suggest that part neurological deviance in may be...

10.1093/schbul/13.3.485 article EN Schizophrenia Bulletin 1987-01-01

The recent debate in World Psychiatry on prototypes versus operational criteria 1 invites a prototypical reassessment of the clinical-phenomenological presentation schizophrenia, especially light developments phenomenological psychopathology 2. Although schizophrenia has been intensively studied for more than century, with bewildering accumulation empirical data, we have still only very partial understanding its diagnostic boundaries 3 and pathogenetic mechanisms 4,5. This epistemic...

10.1016/j.wpsyc.2012.05.002 article EN World Psychiatry 2012-06-01
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