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positive and negative symptoms schizophrenia
Positive and Negative Symptoms of schizophrenia Strauss, Carpenter, & Bartko introduced the distinction between positive and negative symptoms, promoting awareness of an important aspect of heterogeneity in schizophrenia. Carpenter emphasized the challenge of this distinction to the conceptualization of schizophrenia. Positive symptoms are the presence of abnormal functioning, such as hallucinations and delusions, whereas negative […]
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features of schizophrenia:positive features and negative symptoms
FEATURES OF SCHIZOPHRENIA Diagnosed by the presence of particular symptoms, schizophrenia commonly falls within two main groups of both positive and negative behaviour. These unusual behaviours, positive features in this case, indicate that they are definite or dominant and are rather peculiar. These positive symptoms refer to the more pronounced or unusual behaviour that strays […]
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