Ceren Sahin

Towards the development of improved tests for negative symptoms of schizophrenia in a validated animal model.

Behavioural Brain Research October 1, 2016 Ceren Sahin, Nazanin Doostdar, Joanna C. Neill

Negative symptoms in schizophrenia remain an unmet clinical need. There is no licensed treatment specifically for this debilitating aspect of the disorder and effect sizes of new therapies are too small to make an impact on quality of life and function. Negative symptoms are multifactorial but often considered in terms of two domains, expressive deficit incorporating blunted affect and poverty...