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Schizophrenia

            The basic point of this study is to find out whether schizophrenics with negative or positive symptoms show emotions differently. The article explains that schizophrenics of either type rarely show a great deal of emotion at all. Even the people that don't have the negative symptoms like the people with blunt affect never really show emotions. All schizophrenics lose the capacity to show emotion, positive or negative. .
             In this study they took thirty-six people with schizophrenia and gave them different types of test to find how much emotion was shown. There were twenty-five males and eleven females that participated in the study. The test were given in a question type of form and also by letting them watch a type of skit to find what type of emotion was shown. There were people that had Deficit Syndrome, which would be the people with negative symptoms and others that had positive symptoms of schizophrenia that were tested to find out the differences.
             The study shows that there were great differences in the self-report responses give by the two different groups of people. I personally don't believe that this study really has much impact on anything dealing with the future treatment of these people, but it does show that there is a need to study and find out more of why there is such a difference in the responses. Hopefully that could lead to a helpful advance in the treatment of these disorders.
            


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