*This study is equivalent to a survey of the type of facial tissue that was best for people living with allergies.*

This is an example of a waste of federal tax research dollars:

Do people with schizophrenia have difficulty anticipating pleasure, engaging in effortful behavior, or both? Gard DE, Sanchez AH, Cooper K, Fisher M, Garrett C, Vinogradov S. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25133986

This study article was not written with a clear understanding of schizophrenia and the positive and negative aspects of the disease. This is a disease, not "behavioral health". The diagnosis of schizophrenia consists of a cluster of signs in a range of behavioral symptoms. It is being studied wrong. Surveys are not a useful methodology to understand the biological basis of the disease. Who is responsible for allocating these funds?

This is a biological condition. The negative symptoms such as lack of motivation have a physiological basis. This is a physiological illness. Please treat my disease like a medical condition rather than a behavioral issue. Stop wasting tax dollars on studies conducted by people with little insight into the condition of living with schizophrenia. Focus on the biological basis, not behavior interventions. This study is equivalent to studying the type of facial tissue that was best for people living with allergies. We can do better. I'm not impressed by this article, and recommend your supervisors review the allocation of study funds for such soft science. If your going to spend funds on studying my disease spend it on basic science research. Or give your funds back to congress to fund education so my child's generation will have hope to solve this disease and others. Who is managing the quality of research at the NIH? This is a wasteful example of research.
Sunny

I was pleased to read that the NIH is rethinking their strategy. Check this out! http://www.nature.com/news/nih-rethinks-psychiatry-trials-1.14877

They are now changing the way they study mental illness. No longer going to use the DSM, but instead look at objective measures of functioning across disease issues. About time to treat it like the biologically based disease it is.