Glossary

Reduction or loss of normal emotional responses, motivations, and behaviours most commonly seen in schizophrenia. It refers to a group of symptoms that include diminished emotional expression and avolition, alogia, anhedonia and asociality. 

In psychiatry, a new word or condensed combination of several words coined by a person to express a highly complex idea not readily understood by others; seen in schizophrenia and organic mental disorders.

Neuro-vegetative symptoms are recorded in the mood and affect component and relate to what the person tells you about their sleep, appetite, weight, mood, interest, motivation, energy, concentration, memory, psychomotor activity and libido.

A conviction of non-existence of the self, part of the self, or others, or of the world. 'I no longer have a brain' is an example.