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Review
. 2009 Jan;35(1):5-8.
doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbn139.

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

Frauke Schultze-Lutter  1
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Review

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

Frauke Schultze-Lutter. Schizophr Bull. 2009 Jan.

Abstract

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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Fig. 1.
A Model of Huber's Concept of Basic Symptoms (BS)., (1) Reversible postpsychotic basic stage; (2) prodrome of relapse; (3) irreversible postpsychotic basic (“pure defect syndrome”).
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