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Positive and Negative Symptoms in Psychiatry

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1986
The terms positive and negative symptoms have slipped into the language of contemporary psychiatry with comparative ease. It is not uncommon for these expressions to be used with little explanation, both at meeting and in written communications, with the implicit understanding that their meaning is understood and that somehow they are of value to our ...
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How false are “false” positive psychotic symptoms?

Schizophrenia Research, 2003
Recent population-based studies showed that self-reported positive symptoms of psychosis strongly predict the development of psychotic disorder in both the short and the long term (Hanssen et al., 2002 and Poulton, R., Caspi, A., Moffitt, T.E., Cannon, M., Murray, R. and Harrington, H., 2000.
Bak, M.L.F.J., Delespaul, P.A.E.G., Hanssen, M.S.S., Graaf, R. de, Vollebergh, W.A.M., Os, J. van   +5 more
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Positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia

Schizophrenia Research, 1991
Alprazolam, when added under double-blind conditions to a stable neuroleptic regimen in two patients with schizophrenia, resulted in clinically apparent improvement in positive and negative schizophrenic symptoms. Both patients showed significant worsening of symptoms following reduction or discontinuation of aiprazolam.
Jean Addington, D. Addington
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Positive and Negative Symptoms

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1992
The authors assessed the relevance of clinical symptoms to genetic research in schizophrenia in the nuclear families of 65 chronic schizophrenic probands. The morbidity risk for schizophrenia and schizotypal personality (a ‘spectrum’ disorder) was markedly reduced in first-degree relatives of probands with predominant negative symptoms, as compared ...
M, Baron, R S, Gruen, J M, Romo-Gruen
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Negative Symptoms and the Course of Positive Symptoms in Deficit Schizophrenia

Psychopathology, 1995
Differences in the patterns of negative symptoms between two subgroups of inpatients with chronic schizophrenia and a deficit syndrome were examined: one subgroup presented episodic symptoms, while the other exhibited a continuous course of positive symptoms.
H, Gerbaldo, S, Cassady, A, Helisch
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Positive and Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia

Archives of General Psychiatry, 1990
We reexamined the validity of subdividing schizophrenia into categorical subtypes using the predominance of positive and negative symptoms as the characteristic defining features. Using diagnostic criteria proposed in 1982, we again found that the negative subtype may be characterized by a variety of hypothesized correlates of structural brain ...
N C, Andreasen, M, Flaum, V W, Swayze, G, Tyrrell, S, Arndt   +4 more
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Nonadherence to antipsychotics: The role of positive attitudes towards positive symptoms

European Neuropsychopharmacology, 2014
Approximately 50-75% of all patients do not take their antipsychotic medication as prescribed. The current study examined reasons why patients continue versus discontinue antipsychotic medication. We were particularly interested to which extent positive attitudes towards psychotic symptoms foster medication nonadherence.
Steffen, Moritz, Alexandra, Hünsche, Tania M, Lincoln   +2 more
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[What's positive about positive symptoms?].

Psychiatrische Praxis, 2010
To develop a positive concept of schizophrenia despite the mostly negative image in the public.Review of the literature concerning attitudes of psychiatrists towards schizophrenia and concerning the importance of hope for the course of the illness. Proposal of some approaches which might help to attain a more optimistic concept of schizophrenia and a ...
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Positive and negative symptoms in schizophrenia

Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 1993
Increasingly, the systematic study of so-called positive and negative symptoms has revealed that this distinction is too simplistic. There may be three or more syndromes in schizophrenia with different mechanisms and aetiologies. Neurological, psychological and pharmacological correlates may assist in unravelling the nature and importance of these ...
Asl??g K. Malmberg, Anthony S. David
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Positive and Negative Symptoms and Jackson

Archives of General Psychiatry, 1985
The old distinction between positive and negative symptoms has of late been reclaimed to describe the symptomatology of schizophrenia. The commonly held view that it originated with J. H. Jackson is inaccurate. This distinction should be attributed to J. R.
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