negative symptom

one of the deficit symptoms of schizophrenia that follow from diminished volition and executive function including inertia, anergia, lack of involvement with the environment, poverty of thought, social withdrawal, and blunted affect.

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negative symptom

Any symptom involving loss of normal mental function, as seen in schizophrenia, psychosis, depression and other mental disorders.

Examples
Blunting or decreased range of affect; loss of will, pleasure, sense of purpose and social drives; inhibited fluency and content of speech, and range of motion; poverty of speech, movement and motivation; loss of interests in previously enjoyable activities.

negative symptom

Deficit symptom Psychiatry Any Sx involving loss of normal mental function, seen in schizophrenia, depression, and other mental disorders Examples Blunting of or ↓ range of affect, loss of will, pleasure, fluency, and content of speech, range of emotion, sense of purpose, social drives, poverty of speech, loss of interests. See Positive and Negative Symptom Scale, Schizophrenia. Cf Positive symptom.

neg·a·tive symp·tom

(neg'ă-tiv simp'tŏm)

One of the deficit symptoms of schizophrenia that follow from diminished volition and executive function including inertia, anergia, lack of involvement with the environment, poverty of thought, social withdrawal, and blunted affect.

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