...Henrique Castro Santos; Alexandra Rodrigues; Sara Ferreira; João Malhadas Martins; Tiago Baptista; João Gama Marques; Brian Kirkpatrick; Diana Prata Negative symptoms reflect a currently much-untreated loss of normal functioning and are frequently found in psychotic disorders. We present the first...

... did not relate to severity of depression, non-social anhedonia, or clinician-rated negative symptoms. Self-report of residing with a cat prior to age 13, or a first cat bite after age 12, did not relate to any symptom severity measure examined. Conclusions: One theory for these findings...

... Rating Scale and the Positive and Negative Symptom Scale. Mixed multilevel univariate followed by multivariate regression models were used to identify symptoms associated with satisfaction with mental health. Results: In univariate regressions, all subscales – not age and gender – were associated...

.... Symptoms were assessed using the Clinical Assessment Interview for Negative Symptoms (CAINS), the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) and the Calgary Depression Scale. Independent raters later analysed the videos for non-verbal behaviour, using a modified version of the Ethological Coding System...

...-up was 16.6 ± 1.2 and 24.5 ± 3.0 years, respectively. A significant majority of subjects continued psychiatric treatment (95%) and had been readmitted (71%). The mortality rate was 3% (suicide and accident). Negative symptoms were related to mental health service utilization during the follow-up...

...Alexandra Bagney; Roberto Rodriguez-Jimenez; Isabel Martinez-Gras; Eva Maria Sanchez-Morla; Jose Luis Santos; Miguel Angel Jimenez-Arriero; Antonio Lobo; Patrick D. McGorry; Tomas Palomo; PARG Background: Negative symptoms and cognitive dysfunction are of crucial functional and prognostic...

... and explain mental disorders, which involve atomization and, at times, a reification of mental phenomena, can be problematic and may result in a loss of explanatory potential. Finally, we provide a detailed account of how negative symptoms and delusions are conceptualized in CBT and consider the question...

... symptoms factor was validated with the Negative symptoms subscale of the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS). Results: Four factors were extracted from the SOPS: a negative, depression, disorganized and positive factor. The Negative symptom factor consisted of three items (N1: social anhedonia...

...Stefan Kaiser; Karsten Heekeren; Joe J. Simon Negative symptoms have been considered to be specific to schizophrenia or a subtype of schizophrenia: the deficit syndrome. In other words, these symptoms have been considered to be categorically different from other forms of human behavior...

...Dimitri Perivoliotis; Anthony P. Morrison; Paul M. Grant; Paul French; Aaron T. Beck Background: Negative beliefs regarding task performance have been shown to correlate with negative symptom severity in patients with chronic schizophrenia. We conducted a pilot study to determine whether...

... to subjects with schizophrenia (n = 305), organic brain disease (OBD, n = 66) and major depressive disorder (MDD, n = 75). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to establish if the PANSS items for negative symptoms and for depression fit the hypothesized factor structure and if the item factor loadings...

...Gwenolé Loas; Amine Azi; Carole Noisette; Alain Legrand; Valérie Yon Background: Several trials have suggested that negative symptoms are inversely correlated with suicidal risk in schizophrenic patients. This fourteen-year follow-up study compared the positive and negative symptoms...

... such as the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST); certain studies have described a relationship between these deficits and negative symptoms. Schizophrenic patients also exhibit a high lifetime prevalence (40–50%) of comorbid substance use disorders (SUDs). However, little attention has been paid to this comorbidity...

... decreases in positive symptoms and increases in negative symptoms over the course of the illness. Symptom patterns were analyzed by repeated measures ANOVA. Onset before age 25 was associated with greater numbers of negative symptoms at a given age (p = 0.05). Female sex was associated with greater numbers...

... were completed by an investigator for all patients during a semistructured interview. Besides, some sociodemographic and clinical data were collected. Results: A relationship was found between the integrative coping style and absence of negative symptoms, housing with partner or alone indicating more...

...-affective psychotic disorders according to ICD-10 criteria: schizophrenic patients were characterised by more pronounced negative symptoms and a lower global functioning. They were younger than patients with persistent delusional disorders and schizoaffective disorders but older than patients with acute...

... the comprehensive notion of ‘language capacity’ as pathoplastic modulator of overt schizophrenic syndromes (i.e. pathoplastic model)] was replicated on a wider schizophrenic sample, assessing contextually with diagnostic symptoms, depressive symptoms, alexithymia, subjective experience of negative symptoms...

... Positive symptoms Disorganized symptoms Negative symptoms Depressive symptoms Alexithymia Schizophrenia Original Paper Psychopathology 2002;35:17 24 Depersonalization and Basic Symptoms in Schizophrenia Carlo Magginia Andrea Raballob Paola Salvatorea aInstitute of Psychiatry and bSchool...

... (n = 78) patients with severe negative symptoms only. Patients in the first and third groups were older and their illnesses were of longer duration compared to those of the remaining groups. With respect to DSM-IV clinical types of schizophrenic disorders, the paranoid type predominated in the second...