Is the Positive-Negative Distinction in Schizophrenia Valid?
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Significance of the positive-negative distinction in schizophrenia.
This article reviews the cumulative research on positive and negative syndromes in schizophrenia undertaken at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. A strictly operationalized and standardized syndrome scale was applied in multidimensional, cross-sectional, prospective, longitudinal, phasic, and drug-free studies. The following conclusions about positive and negative syndromes were reached: ...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.150.6.879