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Deconstructing negative symptoms of schizophrenia: avolition-apathy and diminished expression clusters predict clinical presentation and functional outcome.

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It is suggested that distinct subgroups of patients with elevated AA or DE can be identified within the broader diagnosis of schizophrenia and that these subgroups show clinically meaningful differences in presentation.
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This article is published in Journal of Psychiatric Research.The article was published on 2013-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 343 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Avolition & Apathy.

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Large-Scale Evaluation of the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) Symptom Architecture in Schizophrenia

TL;DR: One of the largest transethnic factorial structures of PANSS symptom domains is reported, serving as crucial consolidation of a common metric PANSS that could aid in furthering the authors' understanding of schizophrenia.
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Impact of positive emotion regulation training on negative symptoms and social functioning in schizophrenia: a field test

TL;DR: This field test shows that participation in PEPS is accompanied by a reduction of negative symptoms and an improvement of social functioning, and both negative syndromes, reduction of expression and reduction of experience, are improved.
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Increased random exploration in schizophrenia is associated with inflammation

TL;DR: Low-grade inflammation in patients with SZ is associated with random exploration, which can be considered a behavioral marker for disorganization and a potential treatment target for maladaptive exploratory behaviors.
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Progress of negative symptoms over the initial 5 years of a first episode of psychosis.

TL;DR: Negative symptoms improve significantly over the first 2 years of EI and subsequent amelioration was largely the result of expressivity, while Motivation deficits remained stable.
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The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale

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Cluster Analysis

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Cluster analysis

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Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia: Definition and Reliability

TL;DR: The developed Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms has excellent interrater reliability and the five symptom complexes defined by the scale have good internal consistency, which indicates that the conceptual organization of the scale is also cohesive.
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