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In reviewing the importance of psychiatric symptoms and signs not only in diagnosis but also in understanding the underlying processess of schizophrenia, Strauss et al. 1 introduced the positive-negative distinction in psychiatry.

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Casacchia, M., Rossi, A., Stratta, P., Vespucci, G., Cignarale, C. (1987). Negative symptoms: a follow-up perspective. In: Cazzullo, C.L., Invernizzi, G., Sacchetti, E., Vita, A. (eds) Etiopathogenetic Hypotheses of Schizophrenia. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3207-4_1

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