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Affective symptoms in schizophrenia

Drug Discovery Today: Therapeutic Strategies, 2011
In addition to positive, negative, aggressive and cognitive symptoms, patients with schizophrenia often exhibit affective disorders, including depression and anxiety. Affective symptoms in schizophrenia can be particularly disturbing for patients with schizophrenia, increasing the risk of suicide and diminishing quality of life.
Debbi A. Morrissette, Stephen M. Stahl
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Affective priming in schizophrenia with and without affective negative symptoms

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 2003
In the present study automatic perceptual sensitivity to facial affect information was examined in chronic schizophrenic patients. An affective priming task including subliminal and supraliminal presentations of sad and happy facial affect was administered to schizophrenia patients with a flat affect expression (n = 30), schizophrenia patients ...
Thomas, Suslow, Cornelia, Roestel, Volker, Arolt   +2 more
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Quality of life and subthreshold affective symptoms

Quality of Life Research, 2005
Although Quality of Life in patients with Mood Disorders has been widely investigated, there are very few studies that examine the relationship between quality of life and subthreshold affective symptoms. The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between mood spectrum and subjective quality of life in the general population. A sample of 200
GORACCI, A., MARTINUCCI, M., SCALCIONE, U., FAGIOLINI, A., CASTROGIOVANNI, P.   +4 more
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Affective Symptoms in Early-Onset Dementia

Neurologic Clinics, 2011
The phenotypic expression of neuropsychological deficits can have very different genotypic etiologies. Understanding the causes of various neuropsychological deficits is tantamount in developing the appropriate treatments. The literature on mood disorders as a risk factor for dementia is reviewed as well as common neuropsychological patterns in ...
Kenneth, Podell, Karen, Torres
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Depression, Affect and Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1989
The relationship of depression with affect deficit in schizophrenic patients continues to challenge both the clinician and the researcher. Often there is considerable difficulty in differentiating these two affect states in a reliable and valid fashion. On the observational level, depressed affect often appears somewhat restricted, having lost the full
J P, Lindenmayer, S R, Kay
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Mechanisms, Symptoms, and Affects

2015
This chapter discusses the mechanisms, symptoms, and affects, including physiological, biological, psychological states, traits and events; emotions, moods and affects (anxiety, depression, frustration-anger, pleasure-satisfaction-joy, pain, power-control-elation).
Michael McGuire, Alfonso Troisi
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Basic Symptoms in Schizophrenic and Affective Psychoses

Psychopathology, 2010
The study compares schizophrenic and affective psychoses with regard to basic symptoms. 30 patients in schizophrenic pre-, intra-, and postpsychotic basic stages and 30 patients in endogenous-depressive phases were examined according to the Bonn Scale for the Assessment of Basic Symptoms.
H, Ebel, G, Gross, J, Klosterkötter, G, Huber   +3 more
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Covariance of Affective and Schizophrenic Symptoms in Schizo affective Psychosis

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1980
A case report of a patient with schizophrenic and affective symptoms in remarkable correlations (r = .94) is presented to highlight difficulties in documenting the diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder. Proposed solutions include the frequent use of appropriate rating scales, recognizing that postpsychotic depression is common and may mimic primary ...
J A, Silva, J A, Yesavage
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Some Determinants of Affective Symptoms in Epileptics

The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1979
Forty-two epileptics were given a psychiatric interview and completed five questionnaires. Current affective symptoms were significantly associated with a past history of neurotic disorder but not with temporal lobe epilepsy.
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Affective and suicidal symptoms in epileptic prisoners

Psychological Medicine, 1973
SynopsisPrevious writers have suggested a relationship between psychiatric disability and epilepsy, and this is confirmed in the present survey of epileptic prisoners.s The older epileptics, who included four cases of severe cerebral damage, were particularly prone to anxiety and depression. Those with temporal lobe epilepsy had been the most suicidal.
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