Abstract:Background
The study of individual negative symptoms is encouraged as they may have separate neurobiological substrates and require specific therapeutic strategies. Blunted affect is a decrease in the observed expression of emotion and may be more fluctuant than expected. We aim to investigate early trajectories of blunted affect in first episode schizophrenia (FES) patients without previous antipsychotic-treatment.
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