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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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What Factors Influence the Decision to Share Suicidal Thoughts? A Multilevel Social Network Analysis of Disclosure Among Individuals with Serious Mental Illness

TL;DR: Results suggest that "targeted" gatekeeper training may be a promising strategy and reveal relational characteristics to identify "high-probability confidants" in adults with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depressive disorder.
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EPA guidance on assessment of negative symptoms in schizophrenia.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a systematic review of the evidence and elaborate several recommendations for the conceptualization and assessment of negative symptoms in clinical trials and practice, and they also encourage clinicians to use second-generation scales, at least to complement first-generation ones.
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Social relationships in young adults at ultra high risk for psychosis.

TL;DR: It is suggested that youth at high-risk of developing psychosis have fewer and poorer quality social relationships and interventions that focus on increasing the quantity and quality of young adults' social networks may be beneficial for this population.
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Neurobiological basis of motivational deficits in psychopathology.

TL;DR: The literature suggests that research on the neurobiology of motivational dysfunction in psychopathology could inform the development of novel and more effective treatments for a range of CNS disorders.
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Defining and measuring negative symptoms of schizophrenia in clinical trials

TL;DR: Two newer scales, the Brief Negative Symptom Scale (BNSS) and the Clinical Assessment Interview for Negative Symptoms (CAINS) were developed following a National Institute of Mental Health consensus meeting and addressed some of the shortcomings of earlier instruments.
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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

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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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