The negative symptoms of schizophrenia can be hard to treat.
To help you deal with your loved one's negative symptoms:
This may help the person reconnect with others and make negative symptoms a little better.
However, medication fails to improve negative symptoms or problems in thinking significantly.
Not only do women show fewer negative symptoms, but they respond better to antipsychotics.
Positive symptoms can start days, months, or years after the negative symptoms.
Loss of normal thoughts, feelings or actions are known as 'negative' symptoms.
Effectiveness against negative symptoms of schizophrenia has yet to be established.
The negative symptoms also may continue during this phase.
We are keen to address the root causes of these negative symptoms too.