Question 112 · LEK · Schizophrenia
Positive symptoms of schizophrenia include:
- A. abulia.
- B. reduced social drive.
- C. poverty of speech.
- D. apathy.
- E. catatonic behavior.
Hint
Positive symptoms add something abnormal to normal functioning; negative symptoms are a loss of function.
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