Schizophrenia Division, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada; Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Psychiatry Res. 2013 Dec 15;210(2):665-8. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2013.07.024. Epub 2013 Aug 1.
Negative symptoms, particularly amotivation/apathy, are intimately tied to functional outcomes. In the present study, apathy strongly predicted psychosocial functioning in a sample of early course schizophrenia patients. This relationship remained robust even after controlling for other clinical variables. These data suggest amotivation is core to functioning across the disease course.
阴性症状,特别是动机缺乏/淡漠,与功能结果密切相关。在本研究中,淡漠在早期精神分裂症患者样本中强烈预测了心理社会功能。即使在控制了其他临床变量后,这种关系仍然很牢固。这些数据表明,动机缺乏是贯穿疾病过程的功能核心。