Rahel Flückiger

ORCID: 0000-0003-1228-7267
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Research Areas
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Psychiatric care and mental health services
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Shoulder Injury and Treatment
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Health and Medical Studies
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Trauma Management and Diagnosis
  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
  • Cardiac Health and Mental Health
  • Case Reports on Hematomas
  • Aortic Thrombus and Embolism
  • Health, psychology, and well-being
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Social and Demographic Issues in Germany
  • Elbow and Forearm Trauma Treatment
  • Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies

University of Bern
2014-2023

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2022

Jackson and Tull (United States)
2022

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
2022

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
2022

Airlangga University
2022

Universität Hamburg
2022

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
2022

Creative Research Enterprises (United States)
2022

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
2016

Diverse models have been developed to predict psychosis in patients with clinical high-risk (CHR) states. Whether prediction can be improved by efficiently combining and biological broadening the risk spectrum young depressive syndromes remains unclear.To evaluate whether transition predicted CHR or recent-onset depression (ROD) using multimodal machine learning that optimally integrates neurocognitive data, structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI), polygenic scores (PRS) for...

10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.3604 article EN cc-by JAMA Psychiatry 2020-12-02

[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 125(7) of Journal Abnormal Psychology (see record 2016-47529-004). In the article, there an error Author Note. The affiliation Daniela Hubl incorrectly listed as "University Hospital Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Psychotherapy, University Bern." It should have been All versions corrected.] Schizotypy is considered indicator psychosis-proneness therefore, a precursor to schizophrenia-spectrum psychosis. early detection...

10.1037/abn0000192 article EN Journal of Abnormal Psychology 2016-09-01

Recent reports of both heightened prevalence rates and limited clinical relevance high-risk (CHR) criteria their relevant symptoms in children adolescents indicate an important role neurodevelopment the early detection psychoses. Furthermore, sex effects CHR have been reported, though studies were inconclusive. As also impacts on neurodevelopment, we expected that might additional contribution to age criteria.To investigate association with psychosocial impairment mental disorder.In this...

10.5498/wjp.v10.i5.101 article EN World Journal of Psychiatry 2020-05-13

In children and adolescents compared to adults, clinical high-risk of psychosis (CHR) criteria symptoms are more prevalent but less psychosis-predictive clinically relevant. Based on high rates non-converters psychosis, especially in adolescents, it was suggested that CHR were: (1) Pluripotential; (2) A transdiagnostic risk factor; (3) Simply a severity marker mental disorders rather than specifically psychosis-predictive. If any these three alternative explanatory models were true, their...

10.5498/wjp.v12.i3.425 article EN World Journal of Psychiatry 2022-03-14

Early detection of, and intervention for, psychosis during its prodromal phase has the potential to alter course of disease therefore become a major objective modern clinical psychiatry. An increasing number early services have been established in Europe worldwide. This study aims describe evaluate an service for children, adolescents adults (FETZ Bern) aged from eight 40 years with population catchment area 1.035 million Bern, Switzerland.Routine demographic, diagnostic usage data were...

10.1111/eip.13160 article EN Early Intervention in Psychiatry 2021-05-06

Abstract Among individuals with clinical high risk for psychosis (CHR), perceptive symptoms are more frequent but have less significance in children/adolescents compared to adults. However, findings based on interviews relying patient’s recall capacity. Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) can be used explore experiences real-time the subject’s daily life. The aim of this study was assess frequency and stability (perceptive non-perceptive) CHR potential age effects. EMA a sample an early...

10.1007/s00787-022-02003-9 article EN cc-by European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2022-05-18

Understanding factors related to poor quality of life (QoL) and self-rated health (SRH) in clinical high-risk (CHR) for psychosis is important both research applications. We investigated the associations constructs with CHR symptoms, axis-I disorders, sociodemographic variables a community sample.In total, 2683 (baseline) 829 (3-year follow-up) individuals Swiss Canton Bern (age-at-baseline: 16-40 years) were interviewed by telephone regarding using Schizophrenia Proneness Instrument basic...

10.1016/j.eurpsy.2019.08.008 article EN European Psychiatry 2019-10-01

Abstract Depressive disorders are a main cause of disability-adjusted life years already in children and adolescents, whom the clinical picture somewhat differs from adult-onset depression. Thus, we studied sociodemographic predictors depression/dysthymia sample minors. Our baseline (N=676) included patients at high-risk for psychosis (CHR-P, n=183), inpatients admitted non-psychotic, non-affective (n=277), community participants (n=216) age 7.0 to 17.9 (43.8% male). They were assessed by...

10.21203/rs.3.rs-3611793/v1 preprint EN cc-by Research Square (Research Square) 2023-11-17

Depersonalization and derealization (DD) cause significant distress are associated with poor role social functional outcomes. Despite the relatively high prevalence of DD symptoms chronic course in those suffering from a disorder, there still exists need for effective interventions. Preliminary evidence indicates that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) delivered an individual setting demonstrates some positive intervention effects patients regarding their symptom levels. By considering...

10.1159/000520008 article EN cc-by-nc Psychopathology 2021-11-24

Schizotypy is considered to assess psychosis-proneness in terms of a rather stable (personality) trait. For the psychometric assessment schizotypal traits, Wisconsin Scales (WSS) are widely used. They consist four subscales, Physical Anhedonia, Social Perceptual Aberration and Magical Ideation. The latter 2 positive scales were reported load on same factor as delusion- perception-related attenuated symptoms that used define clinical high risk (CHR) state. Results from non-clinical samples...

10.1093/schbul/sby018.998 article EN cc-by Schizophrenia Bulletin 2018-04-01

A 35-year old woman without previous history of gastrointestinal complaints developed increasing upper abdominal pain with nausea and postprandial vomiting over 2 days during which she had been unable to take any food. She no fever; her general physical condition was slightly reduced. While abdomen felt soft on palpation, epigastric pressure but resistance palpation.Blood picture routine laboratory tests were unremarkable. Plain film the demonstrated marked gastric retention. Abdominal...

10.1055/s-2007-1024029 article EN DMW - Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift 2008-03-25

Schizotypy is regarded as a subthreshold expression or precursor of schizophrenia spectrum psychosis. Schizotypal personality disorder risk factor the 'genetic and functional decline' criterion ultra-high (UHR) criteria for psychosis; its positive features are part attenuated psychotic symptoms (APS) UHR criteria. Furthermore, schizotypy assessed with Wisconsin Scales Schizophrenia Proneness (WSSP) 'Perceptual Aberration", 'Magical Ideation", 'Social Anhedonia" but not 'Physical was...

10.1016/s0924-9338(15)30720-3 article EN European Psychiatry 2015-03-01
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