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Subjective symptoms of schizophrenia in research and the clinic: the basic symptom concept.

Frauke Schultze-Lutter

Schizophrenia Bulletin January 2009 DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbn139 (opens in new tab)

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Key points Proposes that basic symptoms are self-experienced subclinical disturbances distinct from positive and negative symptoms, and aims to describe their phenomenology and how they develop over the course of psychotic disorders, a topic the authors link to renewed interest in early detection and intervention.

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Recent focus on early detection and intervention in psychosis has renewed interest in subtle psychopathology beyond positive and negative symptoms. These are self-experienced subclinical disturbances termed basic symptoms (BS). The phenomenologies of BS and their development in the course of psychotic disorders will be described.

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