Mental or Behavioral Dysfunction
blunted affect
Definitions related to blunted affect:
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Disturbance of affect manifested by a severe reduction in the intensity of externalized feeling tone: one of the fundamental symptoms of schizophrenia, as outlined by Eugen Bleuler.Sadock's Comprehensive Glossary of Psychiatry and PsychologyBJ Sadock Titles Press, 2012
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Restricted range of emotional expressiveness.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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(emotional blunting) Lack of emotional reactivity and empathy for situations or persons, sometime also for family members.Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
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