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The current conceptualization of negative symptoms in schizophrenia.

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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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This article is published in World Psychiatry.The article was published on 2017-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 314 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Avolition & Asociality.

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Negative symptoms of schizophrenia: new developments and unanswered research questions

TL;DR: If substantial progress is to be made in the understanding and treatment of negative symptoms, then advances in concepts and assessment should be integrated into the design of future studies of these symptoms.
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Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia: A Review and Clinical Guide for Recognition, Assessment, and Treatment.

TL;DR: The objective of this review was to provide information that may be useful for clinicians treating patients with negative symptoms of schizophrenia, which constitute an unmet medical need in schizophrenia and new and effective treatments are urgently needed.
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The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) for Schizophrenia

TL;DR: Review of five studies involving the PANSS provided evidence of its criterion-related validity with antecedent, genealogical, and concurrent measures, its predictive validity, its drug sensitivity, and its utility for both typological and dimensional assessment.
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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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Dementia Praecox or the Group of Schizophrenias

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Dementia praecox and paraphrenia

TL;DR: "Dementia Praecox and Paraphrenia" (1919) was the book in which Kraepelin first presented his work on schizophrenia to the English-speaking world, and it was probably the most influential psychiatric text of the entire 20th century, and has now become rare.
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