Open AccessNegative symptoms in schizophrenia
Author(s) -
Sayantanava Mitra,
Tathagata Mahintamani,
Anjana Rao Kavoor,
S. Haque Nizamie
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
industrial psychiatry journal/industrial psychiatry journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-2795
pISSN - 0972-6748
DOI - 10.4103/ipj.ipj_30_15
Subject(s) - schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , modalities , abnormality , variety (cybernetics) , psychology , therapeutic modalities , psychiatry , neuroscience , cognitive psychology , medicine , computer science , artificial intelligence , social science , sociology , physical therapy
The negative symptoms have been described in association with schizophrenia since the early days of it being recognized as an entity. However, their elusive nature kept them unacknowledged until there was a revival of interest in them following the development of specific quantifying measures. Over the past three decades, there has been a tremendous surge in research on their types, measurements, status in the present classificatory system, and their implications. The developments in modern investigatory methods have provided the researchers with fresh insights into the underlying mechanisms, and a distributed functioning of the neuronal networks has emerged as the major abnormality. Accordingly, a variety of pharmacological and other treatment modalities have been developed which go beyond the traditional. Nevertheless, a lot remain unanswered. The present paper summarizes important concepts with regard to negative symptoms in schizophrenia.