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	Information and facts about Avolition
		Learn more about Avolition and other medical symptoms..
		In psychology, avolition is a general lack of desire, motivation, and persistence.
		Commonly seen in patients with schizophrenia, those suffering from avolition will not start or complete any major tasks.
	www.mens-health-matters.org /symptoms/avolition.php (186 words)

	Avolition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In psychology, avolition is a general lack of desire, motivation, and persistence.
		Commonly seen in patients with schizophrenia, those suffering from avolition will not start or complete any major tasks.
		This differs from anhedonia, where patients generally find task completion pleasureless.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Avolition (67 words)

	Schizophrenia.com - Schizophrenia Symptom, Schizophrenia Diagnosis, Paranoid Schizophrenia,
		Antipsychotic medications, particularly the traditional ones, often produce side effects that closely resemble the negative symptoms of affective flattening and avolition.
		In addition, other negative symptoms are sometimes present in schizophrenia but not often enough to satisfy diagnostic criteria (DSM-IV): loss of usual interests or pleasures (anhedonia); disturbances of sleep and eating; dysphoric mood (depressed, anxious, irritable, or angry mood); and difficulty concentrating or focusing attention.
		Avolition is the reduction, difficulty, or inability to initiate and persist in goal-directed behavior; it is often mistaken for apparent disinterest.
	www.schizophrenia.com /newsletter/buckets/diag.html (2160 words)

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		Other symptoms not included in the diagnostic criteria are in appropriate affect, anhedonia and impaired social skills.
		Alogia is a decrease or lack of speech.
		Avolition is a loss of motivation to complete everyday tasks.7
	www1.appstate.edu /~hillrw/Schizophrenia/symptoms.html (195 words)

	American Psychiatric Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Its essential features consist of a mixture of characteristic signs and symptoms that have been present for a significant length of time during a 1-month period (or for a shorter time if successfully treated), with some signs of the disorder persisting for at least 6 months (1).
		These psychological and behavioral characteristics are associated with a variety of impairments in occupational or social functioning.
		According to DSM-IV, subtypes of schizophrenia are defined by the predominant symptoms at the time of the most recent evaluation and therefore may change over time.
	www.psych.org /psych_pract/treatg/pg/pg_schizo_2.cfm (1254 words)

	Schizophrenia
		Alogia: Speechlessness or a notable lack of s spontaneity or responsiveness in conversation.
		Avolition: Lack of initiative and unwillingness to act.
		Affective flattening: A symptom of schizophrenia in which an individual seems unresponsive and which is reflected in relatively motionless body language and facial reactions, as well as minimal eye contact.
	www.nctc.tec.oh.us /Webpub/Blewis/psy150slides/chapter9/halgin_09_files/slide0020.htm (123 words)

	Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General - Chapter 4
		negative symptoms, i.e., affective flattening, alogia, or avolition
		Note: Only one Criterion A symptom is required if delusions are bizarre or hallucinations consist of a voice keeping up a running commentary on the person’s behavior or thoughts, or two or more voices conversing with each other.
		Alogia, or poverty of speech, is the lessening of speech fluency and productivity, thought to reflect slowing or blocked thoughts, and often manifested as laconic, empty replies to questions.
	www.surgeongeneral.gov /library/mentalhealth/chapter4/sec4.html (3543 words)

	Psychology and Aging Instructions for Authors
		Primary "positive" symptoms usually associated with schizophrenia include hallucinations -- sensations that the person experiences as real even though no evidence supports them; delusions -- the usually fixed beliefs that a person maintains in spite of evidence to the contrary; and thought disorder -- interference of the capacity to reason or think logically.
		Additional "deficit" or "negative" symptoms are often prominent and include affective loss or flatness; avolition -- a lack of will; anhedonia -- a lack of ability to experience pleasure; impaired attention; and difficulty relating to others.
		Lastly, the residual phase is often identified by the reduction of the classic active symptoms and the increasing prominence of the "deficit" symptoms of apathy, avolition, alogia, anhedonia, and relational problems.
	apadiv20.phhp.ufl.edu /cut2303.htm (1969 words)

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