Is it time to revise the diagnostic criteria for apathy in brain disorders? The 2018 international consensus group

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Authors

Philippe Robert · Cognition Behaviour Technology

Krista L. Lanctôt · University of Toronto

Luis Agüera-Ortíz · Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental

Pauline Aalten · Transnational University Limburg

François Brémond · Cognition Behaviour Technology

Michaela Defrancesco · Innsbruck Medical University

Cécile Hanon

Abstract

The new diagnostic criteria for apathy provide a clinical and scientific framework to increase the validity of apathy as a clinical construct. This should also help to pave the path for apathy in brain disorders to be an interventional target.

Topics & Keywords

Functional Brain Connectivity Studies Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Partnerships for the goals

Publication Details

Published in: European Psychiatry

Volume 54, pp. 71-76

DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2018.07.008

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