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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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Social withdrawal: An initially adaptive behavior that becomes maladaptive when expressed excessively

TL;DR: The genetic building blocks of the social decision making network might be the most relevant targets to obtain an understanding of the transition of normal social interaction into social withdrawal.
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The evaluation of insufficient cognitive effort in schizophrenia in light of low IQ scores.

TL;DR: Findings suggest that low IQ is a significant predictor of insufficient effort during neuropsychological test performance in schizophrenia, calling into question the validity of neuroPsychological effort testing in SZ patients with low IQ.
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Cluster analysis differentiates high and low community functioning in schizophrenia: Subgroups differ on working memory but not other neurocognitive domains

TL;DR: The results suggest that verbal working memory may play a critical role in community functioning, and is a potential cognitive treatment target for schizophrenia subjects.
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Spared motivational modulation of cognitive effort in a maternal immune activation model of schizophrenia risk.

TL;DR: The results indicate that MIA spares functioning of some of the cognitive, motivational, and decision-making processes that are impacted in schizophrenia and suggest that MIA as an isolated manipulation does not model the full range and nuance of the Cognitive and motivational impairments in the disease.
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Relationship between diminished expression and cognitive impairment in first-episode schizophrenia: A prospective three-year follow-up study

TL;DR: The findings indicated that DE and cognitive impairment represented relatively independent domains of the illness with potentially distinctive therapeutic implications.
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The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale

TL;DR: The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BRS) as mentioned in this paper was developed to provide a rapid assessment technique particularly suited to the evaluation of patient change, and it is recommended for use where efficiency, speed, and economy are important considerations.
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Cluster Analysis

TL;DR: This fourth edition of the highly successful Cluster Analysis represents a thorough revision of the third edition and covers new and developing areas such as classification likelihood and neural networks for clustering.
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Cluster analysis

TL;DR: Cluster analysis is a multivariate procedure for detecting natural groupings in data that resembles discriminant analysis in one respect—the researcher seeks to classify a set of objects into subgroups although neither the number nor members of the subgroups are known.
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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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