Publications
Schizophrenia Research, 250, 196-202.
Kilian, S., Du Plessis, S., Fouche, J-P., …Asmal, L. (2022).
Differences in white matter microstructure in first-episode schizophrenia spectrum disorders vs healthy volunteers and their association with cognition.
Psychoneuroendocrinology, 136, 105619.
Van Den Heuvel, LL., Suliman, S., Brocker, E., Kilian, S.,…Seedat, S. (2022).
The association between hair cortisol levels, inflammation and cognitive functioning in females.
South African Journal of Psychiatry, 27(1).
Smit, AM., Kilian, S., Emsley, R.,…Asmal, L. (2021).
Associations of premorbid adjustment with type and timing of childhood trauma in First-episode Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders.
Psychiatry Research, 289, 113004.
Kilian, S., Asmal, L., Phahladira, L.,…Emsley, R. (2020).
The association between childhood trauma and treatment outcomes in schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
Psychiatry Research, 293, 113374.
Wambua, N., Kilian, S., Ntlantsana, V., Chiliza, B. (2020).
The association between resilience and psychosocial functioning in schizophrenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Schizophrenia Research, 215, 308-313.
Du Plessis, S., Scheffler, F., Luckhoff, H., Asmal, L., Kilian, S., Phahladira, L., Emsley, R. (2020).
Childhood trauma and hippocampal subfield volumes in first-episode schizophrenia and healthy controls.
Transcultural Psychiatry (in press).
Kilian, S., Swartz, S., Xanthe, H., Benjamin, E., Chiliza, B. (2019).
When roles within interpreter-mediated psychiatric consultations speak louder than words.
Schizophrenia Bulletin, 45(2), 369-376.
Asmal, L., Kilian, S…Emsley, R. (2019).
Childhood trauma associated with white matter abnormalities in first-episode schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia Research, 206,171-176.
Luckhoff H, Phahladira L, Scheffler F, Asmal L, Chiliza B, Killian S, Seedat S, Emsley R. (2019).
Weight gain and metabolic changes as predictors of symptom improvement in first-episode schizophrenia spectrum disorder patients treated over 12 months.
Schizophrenia Research, 206, 394-399.
Phahladira, L., Asmal, L., Kilian, S., Chiliza, B., Scheffler, F., Luckhoff, H., Du Plessis, S., Emsley, R. (2019).
Changes in insight over the first 24 months of treatment in schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 14, 205-223.
Emsley, R., Kilian, S. (2018).
Efficacy and safety profile of paliperidone palmitate injections in the management of patients with schizophrenia: an evidence-based review.
Schizophrenia Research, 199, 90-95.
Scheffler, F., Kilian, S., Chiliza, B., Asmal, L., Phahladira, L., Du Plessis, S., Kidd, M., Murray, RM., Di Forti, M., Seedat, S., Emsley, R. (2018).
Effects of cannabis use on body mass, fasting glucose and lipids during the first 12 months of treatment in schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
Neurology, Psychiatry and Brain Research, 30, 12-21.
Schoemaker, J., Kilian, S., Emsley, R. Vingerhoets, A.
Factors associated with placebo response in depression trials: A systematic review of published meta-analyses (1990-2017).
Psychol Med, 22, 1-8.
Kilian S, Asmal L, Chiliza B, Olivier MR, Phahladira L, Scheffler F, Seedat S, Marder SR, Green MF, Emsley R. (2017).
Childhood adversity and cognitive function in schizophrenia spectrum disorders and healthy controls: evidence for an association between neglect and social cognition.
South African Journal of Psychiatry, 23,1049.
Olivier RM, Kilian S, Chiliza B, Asmal L, Oosthuizen P, Kidd M, Emsley R. (2017).
Cognitive-perceptual deficits and symptom correlates in first-episode schizophrenia.
Psychological Medicine, 47(12), 2187-2196.
Emsley R, Asmal L, du Plessis S, Chiliza B, Phahladira L, Kilian S. (2017).
Brain volume changes over the first year of treatment in schizophrenia: Relationships to antipsychotic treatment.
PLoS ONE.
Kilian, S., Burns, J., Seedat, S, et al. (2017).
Factors Moderating the Relationship Between Childhood Trauma and Premorbid Adjustment in First-Episode Schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia Research, 188:144-150.
Emsley, R., Chiliza, B., Asmal, L., Kilian, S et al. (2017).
Neurological soft signs in first-episode schizophrenia: State- and trait-related relationships to psychopathology, cognition and antipsychotic medication effects.
Early intervention in psychiatry
Asmal, L., Du Plessis, S., Vink, M., Chiliza, B., Kilian, S., Emsley, R. (2016).
Symptom attribution and frontal cortical thickness in first-episode schizophrenia.
PLOS ONE, 10(6), e0127740.
Kilian, S., Asmal, L., Goosen, A., Philandra, L., Chiliza, B., Emsley, R. (2015).
Instruments measuring blunted affect in schizophrenia patients.
Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental, 30 (3), 173-182.
Chiliza, B., Asmal, L., Kilian, S., Phahladira, L., Emsley, R. (2015).
Rate and predictors of non-response to first-line antipsychotic treatment in first-episode schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia Research, 159, e1–e22.
Abayomi, O., Amato, D., Bailey, C., Bitanihirwe, B., Bowen, L., Burshtein, S., Cullen, A., Fusté, M., Herrmann, A.P., Khodaie, B., Kilian, S., Lang, Q.A., Manning, E.E., Massuda, R., Nurjono, M., Sadiq, S., Sanchez-Gutierrez, T., Sheinbaum, T., Shivakumar, V., Simon, N., Spiteri-Staines, A., Sirijit, S., Toftdahl, N.G., Wadehra, S., Wang, Y., Wigton, R., Wright, S., Yagoda, S., Zaytseva, Y., O’Shea, A., DeLisi. L.E. (2014).
The 4th Schizophrenia International Research Society Conference, 5 –9 April 2014, Florence, Italy: A summary of topics and trends.
Culture Medicine and Psychiatry, 38, 700-711.
Swartz, L., Kilian, S. (2014).
The invisibility of informal interpreting in mental health care in South Africa: notes towards a contextual understanding.
Global Health Action, 27(7), 23433.
Swartz, L., Kilian, S., Twesigye, J., Attah, D., & Chiliza, B. (2014).
Language, culture, and task shifting–an emerging challenge for global mental health.
Social Science & Medicine, 106,159-67.
Kilian, S., Swartz, L., & Chiliza, B. (2014).
The potential consequences of informal interpreting practices for assessment of patients in a South African psychiatric hospital.
Cape Town: HSRC Press.
Gibson, D., & Kilian, S. (2013).
The making of Sutherlandia as medicine. In Contested Ecologies.
. African Journal of Psychiatry, 16(6), 424-429.
Hagan, S., Swartz, L., Kilian, S., Chiliza, B., Bisogno, P., & Joska, J. (2013).
The accuracy of interpreting key psychiatric terms by ad hoc interpreters at a South African psychiatric hospital.
Transcultural Psychiatry, 50, 493-514.
Smith, J., Swartz, L., Chiliza, B., & Kilian, S. (2013).
Mediating words, mediating worlds: interpreting as hidden care work in a South African psychiatric hospital.
Psychiatric Services, 61, 309-312.
Kilian, S., Swartz, L., & Joska, J. (2010).
Competence of interpreters in a South African psychiatric hospital in translating key psychiatric terms.
SA Medical Journal, 97(8), 585-58
Kilian, S., Suliman, S., Fakier, N., & Seedat, S. (2007).
Rape survivors and the provision of HIV post-exposure prophylaxis.