Originally published in February 2004. This guideline is more than 5 years old and has not
yet been updated to ensure that it reflects current knowledge and practice. In accordance …

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 …

The variable results of positive-negative research with schizophrenics underscore the
importance of well-characterized, standardized measurement techniques. We report on the …

Objectives Existing treatments for schizophrenia can improve positive symptoms, but it is
unclear if they have any impact on negative symptoms. This meta-analysis was conducted to …

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 …

Abstract The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) was developed out of the
need for a well-operationalized method of assessing these syndromes in schizophrenia …

Over 75 years ago, Bleuler (1911) confronted psychiatry with the question of
'schizophrenia'or 'schizophrenias'. Today we recognise the heterogeneity of the condition …

In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker reveals an astounding truth:
Schizophrenics in the United States fare worse than those in poor countries, and quite …

These updated guidelines are based on a first edition of the World Federation of Societies of
Biological Psychiatry Guidelines for Biological Treatment of Schizophrenia published in …

The two-syndrome concept postulates two “dimensions of pathology” underlying
schizophrenia—a reversible (and potentially neuroleptic-responsive) component and a …