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Marita Pruessner

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Adjunct ProfessorDepartment of PsychiatryMcGill University

Marita Pruessner

Adjunct Professor

Department of Psychiatry

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Adjunct, part-time and visiting faculty usually co-supervise alongside a core faculty member.
3 publications in the last five years, latest in 2024.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.

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Research

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First episode psychosis high risk for psychosis research on stress and hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis function

Latest papers

Examining the psychobiological response to acute social stress across clinical stages and symptom trajectories in the early psychosis continuum.
Development and psychopathology · 2024 · senior author
Severe childhood trauma and emotion recognition in males and females with first-episode psychosis.
Early intervention in psychiatry · 2023
The effects of childhood adversity on treatment delays and its components in first-episode psychosis.
Psychiatry research · 2022

All 21 publications

Latest funding

Biomarker discovery for psychosis: A study of high-risk states and first-episodes of psychosis
CIHR · 2016 · Co-investigator
$1,820,700
Systematic Investigations into psychological, physiological and endocrinological effects of stress
CIHR · 2012 · Co-investigator
$448,090

All 2 grants and awards

21 publications.

Examining the psychobiological response to acute social stress across clinical stages and symptom trajectories in the early psychosis continuum.

Shah JL, Paquin V, McIlwaine SV, Malla AK, Joober R, Pruessner M

Development and psychopathology20248 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1017/s0954579423000056 PMID: 36852607

Severe childhood trauma and emotion recognition in males and females with first-episode psychosis.

Penney D, Pruessner M, Malla AK, Joober R, Lepage M

Early intervention in psychiatry202310 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1111/eip.13299 PMID: 35384318

The effects of childhood adversity on treatment delays and its components in first-episode psychosis.

Veru F, MacDonald K, Malla A, Pruessner M, King S, Joober R, Shah J, Iyer SN

Psychiatry research20227 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114341 PMID: 34953203

Impact of childhood trauma on positive and negative symptom remission in first episode psychosis.

Pruessner M, King S, Veru F, Schalinski I, Vracotas N, Abadi S, Jordan G, Lepage M, Iyer S, Malla AK, Shah J, Joober R

Schizophrenia research202128 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2021.02.023 PMID: 33812301

A meta-analysis of blood and salivary cortisol levels in first-episode psychosis and high-risk individuals.

Misiak B, Pruessner M, Samochowiec J, Wiśniewski M, Reginia A, Stańczykiewicz B

Frontiers in neuroendocrinology2021

DOI: 10.1016/j.yfrne.2021.100930 PMID: 34171354

Gender differences in childhood trauma in first episode psychosis: Association with symptom severity over two years.

Pruessner M, King S, Vracotas N, Abadi S, Iyer S, Malla AK, Shah J, Joober R

Schizophrenia research201978 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2018.06.043 PMID: 29935881

Individualized Prediction of Transition to Psychosis in 1,676 Individuals at Clinical High Risk: Development and Validation of a Multivariable Prediction Model Based on Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis.

Malda A, Boonstra N, Barf H, de Jong S, Aleman A, Addington J, Pruessner M, Nieman D, de Haan L, Morrison A, Riecher-Rössler A, Studerus E, Ruhrmann S, Schultze-Lutter F, An SK, Koike S, Kasai K, Nelson B, McGorry P, Wood S, Lin A, Yung AY, Kotlicka-Antczak M, Armando M, Vicari S, Katsura M, Matsumoto K, Durston S, Ziermans T, Wunderink L, Ising H, van der Gaag M, Fusar-Poli P, Pijnenborg GHM

Frontiers in psychiatry201940 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00345 PMID: 31178767

The Trier Social Stress Test in first episode psychosis patients: Impact of perceived stress, protective factors and childhood trauma.

Seitz R, Vracotas N, Bechard-Evans L, King S, Abadi S, Joober R, Shah JL, Malla AK, Pruessner M

Psychoneuroendocrinology201931 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2019.01.010 PMID: 30658856

A study on negative and depressive symptom prevalence in individuals at ultra‐high risk for psychosis

Azar M, Pruessner M, Baer LH, Iyer S, Malla AK, Lepage M

Early Intervention in Psychiatry201831 citations

DOI: 10.1111/eip.12386

Outcome in patients converting to psychosis following a treated clinical high risk state.

Malla A, de Bonneville M, Shah J, Jordan G, Pruessner M, Faridi K, Rabinovitch M, Iyer SN, Joober R

Early intervention in psychiatry201814 citations

DOI: 10.1111/eip.12431 PMID: 28613411

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Marita Pruessner

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Examining the psychobiological response to acute social stress across clinical stages and symptom trajectories in the early psychosis continuum.

Severe childhood trauma and emotion recognition in males and females with first-episode psychosis.

The effects of childhood adversity on treatment delays and its components in first-episode psychosis.

Impact of childhood trauma on positive and negative symptom remission in first episode psychosis.

A meta-analysis of blood and salivary cortisol levels in first-episode psychosis and high-risk individuals.

Gender differences in childhood trauma in first episode psychosis: Association with symptom severity over two years.

Individualized Prediction of Transition to Psychosis in 1,676 Individuals at Clinical High Risk: Development and Validation of a Multivariable Prediction Model Based on Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis.

The Trier Social Stress Test in first episode psychosis patients: Impact of perceived stress, protective factors and childhood trauma.

A study on negative and depressive symptom prevalence in individuals at ultra‐high risk for psychosis

Outcome in patients converting to psychosis following a treated clinical high risk state.

Biomarker discovery for psychosis: A study of high-risk states and first-episodes of psychosis

Systematic Investigations into psychological, physiological and endocrinological effects of stress

Frequent collaborators

Ashok Malla

Ridha Joober

Jai Shah

Srividya Iyer

Jens Pruessner

Suzanne King

Martin Lepage

Franz Veru

Louis Collins

Kia Faridi

Donald Collins

Alain Dagher

Sonia Lupien

Mark Rabinovitch

Mallar Chakravarty

Michael Meaney

Vincent Paquin

Jean Addington

Larry Baer