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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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The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A Dimensional Alternative to Traditional Nosologies

TL;DR: The HiTOP promises to improve research and clinical practice by addressing the aforementioned shortcomings of traditional nosologies and provides an effective way to summarize and convey information on risk factors, etiology, pathophysiology, phenomenology, illness course, and treatment response.
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A Review of Reward Processing and Motivational Impairment in Schizophrenia

TL;DR: Research on reward processing in schizophrenia has begun to provide important insights into the cognitive and neural mechanisms associated with motivational impairments, and suggestions for novel behavioral intervention strategies that make use of external cues, reinforcers, and mobile technology are discussed.
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The current conceptualization of negative symptoms in schizophrenia.

TL;DR: The assessment of the negative symptom dimension has recently improved, but even current expert consensus‐based instruments diverge on several aspects and the use of objective measures might contribute to overcome uncertainties about the reliability of rating scales, but these measures require further investigation and validation.
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Negative symptoms and depression predict lower psychological well-being in individuals with schizophrenia.

TL;DR: Findings indicate that lower psychological well-being may be characteristic of individuals in the chronic phase of schizophrenia, particularly those with negative symptoms and/or depression.
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Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia and Compliance with Medication

TL;DR: It is suggested that negative symptoms are one of the factors of importance in determining whether a patient will attend for depot neuroleptic medication, especially avolition, apathy, and alogia.
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Differential patterns of premorbid academic and social deterioration in patients with schizophrenia.

TL;DR: Investigation of academic and social functioning prior to schizophrenia onset in a group of 58 males diagnosed with schizophrenia suggests that premorbid academic functioning is particularly susceptible to deterioration during late adolescence, with accelerating deterioration as schizophrenia onset becomes imminent.
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Olfactory Hedonic Judgment in Patients With Deficit Syndrome Schizophrenia

TL;DR: Olfactory perception in deficit syndrome (DS) and nondeficit syndrome (ND) schizophrenia patients is suggested to be characterized by a unique pattern of olfactory valence judgment that is characterized by abnormalities in processing positively valenced stimuli.
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Differential patterns of premorbid social and academic deterioration in deficit and nondeficit schizophrenia

TL;DR: Poor premorbid social adjustment and significant social deterioration from childhood to adolescence may be a hallmark feature of people who later go on to develop prominent negative symptoms and a unique marker for the DS subtype of schizophrenia.
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