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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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Positive Emotions Program for Schizophrenia (PEPS): a pilot intervention to reduce anhedonia and apathy

TL;DR: Findings indicate that PEPS is both a feasible intervention and is associated with an apparently specific reduction of anhedonia and apathy in schizophrenia, which need to be tested further in a controlled study.
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The Behavioral Neuroscience of Motivation: An Overview of Concepts, Measures, and Translational Applications

TL;DR: This chapter provides an overview to the volume "The Behavioural Neuroscience of Motivation", which includes succinct summaries of; The neurobiology of components of healthy motivational drive, neural measures and correlates of motivation in humans and other animals as well as information on disorders in which abnormal motivation plays a major role.
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A Psychometric Comparison of the Clinical Assessment Interview for Negative Symptoms and the Brief Negative Symptom Scale

TL;DR: Comparisons of the Brief Negative Symptom Scale and Clinical Assessment Interview for Negative Symptoms suggest that both scales have good psychometric properties, but that there are important distinctions among the items related to motivation and pleasure.
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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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