The Positivity Offset Theory of Anhedonia in Schizophrenia

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science

• Publication date

  2017-03-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1177/2167702616674989PMID 28497008PMCID PMC5421554
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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