Background: Despite a large body of schizophrenia research, we still have no reliable
predictors to guide treatment from illness onset. The present study aimed to identify baseline …

Objective: To characterize the early cognitive and social functioning characteristics of a
sample of first-episode psychosis patients with and without persistent negative symptoms …

Background Although persistent negative symptoms (PNS) are known to contribute
significantly to poor functional outcome, they remain poorly understood. We examined the …

Aim Identifying discrete dimensions that underline negative symptoms in First Episode
Psychosis (FEP) could improve the understanding and the treatment of such invalidating …

Negative and cognitive symptoms are core features of schizophrenia that are correlated in
cross-sectional designs. To further explore the relationship between these critical symptom …

Persistent negative symptoms (PNS) are linked to poor functional outcomes and may be
primary or caused by secondary factors. Although several studies have examined PNS in …

Schizophrenia is a disorder with variable outcome and the ability to predict the outcome has
important clinical utility. Neurological soft signs (NSS) and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex …

Negative symptoms are a key treatment target in early psychosis intervention. There is a
paucity of research examining longitudinal course of negative symptoms across the initial …

Negative symptoms are a core psychopathological dimension of psychotic disorders.
Previous research on primary negative symptoms (PNS) mostly focused on chronic samples …

Early persistent negative symptoms (PNS) following a first episode of psychosis (FEP) are
linked to poor functional outcome. Reports of reduced amygdalar and hippocampal volumes …