Silvia Amoretti, Gisela Mezquida, Norma Verdolini, Miquel Bioque, Ana M Sánchez-Torres, Laura Pina-Camacho, Iñaki Zorrilla, Amira Trabsa, Roberto Rodriguez-Jimenez, Iluminada Corripio, Salvador Sarró, Angela Ibañez, Judith Usall, Rafael Segarra, Eduard Vieta, Natalia Roberto, Josep Antoni Ramos-Quiroga, Alfonso Tortorella, Giulia Menculini, Manuel J Cuesta, Mara Parellada, Ana González-Pinto, Esther Berrocoso, Miguel Bernardo
INTRODUCTION: Negative symptoms (NS) include asociality, avolition, anhedonia, alogia, and blunted affect and are linked to poor prognosis. It has been suggested that they reflect two different factors: diminished expression (EXP) (blunted affect and alogia) and amotivation/pleasure (MAP) (anhedonia, avolition, asociality). The aim of this article was to examine potential sex differences among first-episode schizophrenia (FES) patients and analyze sex-related predictors of two NS symptoms factors (EXP and MAP) and functional outcome...
September 14, 2023: Span J Psychiatry Ment Health