Negative symptoms of schizophrenia are associated with poor functional outcome and place
a substantial burden on people with this disorder, their families, and health-care systems …

Although dementia praecox or schizophrenia has been considered a unique disease for
over a century, its definitions and boundaries have changed over this period and its etiology …

BackgroundDuring the last decades, a renewed interest for negative symptoms (NS) was
brought about by the increased awareness that they interfere severely with real-life …

Negative symptoms have long been conceptualized as a core aspect of schizophrenia. They
play a key role in the functional outcome of the disorder, and their management represents a …

Research on negative symptoms of schizophrenia has received renewed interest since the
1980s. A scientometric analysis that objectively maps scientific knowledge, with changes in …

Objective Evidence suggests that social skills training (SST) is an efficacious intervention for
negative symptoms in psychosis, whereas evidence of efficacy in other psychosis symptom …

Objective To provide an update on the evidence base for the nature of the relationship
between negative symptoms and depressive features in people with schizophrenia, and …

Negative symptoms in schizophrenia may be classified as primary or secondary. Primary
negative symptoms are thought to be intrinsic to schizophrenia, while secondary negative …

Negative symptoms, eg social withdrawal, reduced initiative, anhedonia and affective
flattening, are notoriously difficult to treat. In this review, we take stock of recent research into …

Objective Functional impairment is characteristic of most individuals with schizophrenia;
however, the key variables that undermine community functioning are not well understood …