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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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A history and overview of anhedonia in endogenous mental disorders

TL;DR: The recent literature on anhedonia and its psychopathological features, which are important for prognosis in affective disorders and schizophrenia are reviewed.
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A prospective cohort study of community functioning among psychiatric outpatients.

TL;DR: The findings implied that the rehabilitation services for people with common mental disorders might target on the enhancement of self-esteem and reduction of discrimination experience to facilitate their improvement in social skills and work skills.
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Animal Models of Psychotic Disorders: Dimensional Approach Modeling Negative Symptoms

TL;DR: A review of the attempts to model the different negative symptoms (alogia, anhedonia, asociality, avolition) and concludes that combinatorial methods may be more appropriate in developing an animal model that represents these systems and can be validated as mentioned in this paper.
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Негативные симптомы на инициальном этапе шизофрении в юношеском возрасте (современные аспекты дифференциально-диагностической оценки и терапии)

TL;DR: The review highlights the problem of early diagnostics of schizophrenia, trying to identify specific markers at the prodromal stage, before the appearance of full clinical symptoms, to indicate poor outcomes with a significant decrease of functioning.
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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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