Dominika Sieradzka- BSc; MSc
- PhD Student at Birkbeck, University of London
Dominika Sieradzka
- BSc; MSc
- PhD Student at Birkbeck, University of London
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Introduction
My principle area of investigation concerns understanding of aetiology of psychotic experiences in adolescents through identification and further investigation of associated genetic and environmental risk factors.
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Education
October 2011 - September 2012
October 2007 - July 2011
October 2001 - July 2004
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Publications (6)
Occurrence of psychotic experiences is common amongst adolescents in the general population. Twin studies suggest that a third to a half of variance in adolescent psychotic experiences is explained by genetic influences. Here we test the extent to which common genetic variants account for some of the twin-based heritability. Psychotic experiences w...
Psychosis has been hypothesised to be a continuously distributed quantitative phenotype and disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder represent its extreme manifestations. Evidence suggests that common genetic variants play an important role in liability to both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Here we tested the hypothesis that these...
We aimed to characterize multiple psychotic experiences, each assessed on a spectrum of severity (ie, quantitatively), in a general population sample of adolescents. Over five thousand 16-year-old twins and their parents completed the newly devised Specific Psychotic Experiences Questionnaire (SPEQ); a subsample repeated it approximately 9 months l...
