title: Basic symptoms and negative symptoms in the light of language impairment.
abstract: The Frankfurter Beschwerde-Fragebogen (FBF), assessing basic symptoms (B-S), and the Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS) were administered to 30 patients satisfying DSM-III-R criteria for the diagnosis of schizophrenia. Considering the relationship between BS and negative symptoms (N-S), we identified the key role of the impairment of receptive and expressive language for the correlation of these two orders of phenomena.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, University of Florence, Italy.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Stanghellini
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Quercioli
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ricca
authors.forename: W K
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Strik
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cabras
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology