See Also: Negative symptoms(health)
affective symptoms(medicine)
withdrawal symptoms(medicine)
glaucoma, symptoms(medicine)
abstinence symptoms(medicine)
cognitive symptoms(medicine)
cancer symptoms(medicine)
behavioural symptoms(medicine)
withdrawal symptoms(dictionary)
signs and symptoms(medicine)

Negative symptoms (health)


Most commonly refers to a group of symptoms characteristic of schizophrenia that include loss of fluency and spontaneity of verbal expression, impaired ability to focus or sustain attention on a particular task, difficulty in initiating or following through on tasks, impaired ability to experience pleasure to form emotional attachment to others, and blunted affect.