Primary Negative Symptoms: Appraisal of a Misty Outlook | Biomed Grid

Negative symptoms, which are among the main criteria in DSM-5 for diagnosis of schizophrenia, are categorized by some of the researchers into ‘primary vs. secondary‘, ‘enduring vs. transitory‘ and ‘treatment-resistant vs. treatment-responsive' groups. Besides, adjunctive strategies are desperately acknowledged as the necessary complementary inventions in this regard. But according to a quantity of data, such invented classification into above-mentioned clusters, may not be verified reasonably. In addition, unconditional pessimistic standpoint regarding inflexibility of ‘primary negative symptoms', against therapeutic approaches, does not seem to be tenable and thus needs to be revised. So, the time has arrived for a critical review about such a conjectural dichotomy, which is seeking diligently cure for no authentic theme.