Journal article
Affective flattening and the criteria for schizophrenia
The American journal of psychiatry, Vol.136(7), pp.944-947
07/1979
DOI: 10.1176/ajp.136.7.944
PMID: 453357
Abstract
The author used a scale that emphasizes objective behavioral signs to evaluate affective flattening and to rate affect in 69 patients suffering from schizophrenia (N = 30), mania (N = 19), and depression (N = 20). Raters were blind to the patient's diagnosis. Interrater reliability was assessed and found to be adequate to good for most items on the scale and for a global rating. The affective flattening was found to be common, but not omnipresent, in schizophrenia; it was also common among the depressed patients. The author recommends that affective flattening be considered as an important criterion for schizophrenia and that future research explore its frequency and prognostic significance.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Affective flattening and the criteria for schizophrenia
- Creators
- N C Andreasen
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The American journal of psychiatry, Vol.136(7), pp.944-947
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1176/ajp.136.7.944
- PMID
- 453357
- ISSN
- 0002-953X
- eISSN
- 1535-7228
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/1979
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984003411902771
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