Negative symptoms and Medications for Schizophrenia Treatment:

diminished emotional expression

(they don't show you any facial expression or lack of showing any emotion. The response isn't typical) Making judgments on the individual's normal.

Avolition

(decreased motivated self-directed behavior. You're not taking care of yourself. Not doing anything to help yourself.

Alogia

(poverty of speech output. You don't talk a lot, or have very brief replies)

Anhedonia

inability to experience pleasure. Nothing you do brings happiness)

Antipsychotics

they Block dopamine synapses

Atypical antipsychotics

- Serotonin-dopamine antagonists (inhibit neurotransmitter effects)

Dopamine hypothesis:

excessive stimulation of dopamine synapses may contribute to schizophrenia. Overactive dopamine. Probably not the whole story. This can be managed.