Editorial: Schizophrenia: Human and Animal Studies
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Editorial: Schizophrenia: Human and Animal Studies
Schizophrenia is a complex disorder with relatively stable prevalence rates estimated at about 0.5–1% (Saha et al., 2005). Schizophrenia is characterized by the occurrence of various psychopathological symptoms that have been described as positive symptoms (delusions and hallucinations), negative symptoms (apathy, lack of motivation, flat affect, poverty of speech, and social withdrawal), disor...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1662-5153
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00076