Formal Thought Disorder and language impairment in schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a psychiatric illness in which disorders of thought content are a prominent feature. The disruption of normal flow of thought, or “Formal Thought Disorder” (FTD), has been traditionally assessed through the content and form of patients’ speech, and speech abnormalities in schizophre...

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Main Authors: Marcia Radanovic, Rafael T. de Sousa, L. Valiengo, Wagner Farid Gattaz, Orestes Vicente Forlenza
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Published: Thieme Revinter Publicações 2013-01-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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author Marcia Radanovic
Rafael T. de Sousa
L. Valiengo
Wagner Farid Gattaz
Orestes Vicente Forlenza
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description Schizophrenia is a psychiatric illness in which disorders of thought content are a prominent feature. The disruption of normal flow of thought, or “Formal Thought Disorder” (FTD), has been traditionally assessed through the content and form of patients’ speech, and speech abnormalities in schizophrenia were considered as a by-product of the disruption in conceptual structures and associative processes related to psychosis. This view has been changed due to increasing evidence that language per se is impaired in schizophrenia, especially its semantic, discursive, and pragmatic aspects. Schizophrenia is currently considered by some authors as a “language related human specific disease” or “logopathy”, and the neuroanatomical and genetic correlates of the language impairment in these patients are under investigation. Such efforts may lead to a better understanding about the pathophysiology of this devastating mental disease. We present some current concepts related to FTD as opposed to primary neurolinguistic abnormalities in schizophrenia.
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spelling doaj-art-2d149aef3cf64b09b2cbe30ae410c4fc2025-08-20T02:01:34ZengThieme Revinter PublicaçõesArquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria1678-42272013-01-017115560S0004-282X2013000100012Formal Thought Disorder and language impairment in schizophreniaMarcia Radanovic0Rafael T. de Sousa1L. Valiengo2Wagner Farid Gattaz3Orestes Vicente Forlenza4Universidade de São PauloUniversidade de São PauloUniversidade de São PauloUniversidade de São PauloUniversidade de São PauloSchizophrenia is a psychiatric illness in which disorders of thought content are a prominent feature. The disruption of normal flow of thought, or “Formal Thought Disorder” (FTD), has been traditionally assessed through the content and form of patients’ speech, and speech abnormalities in schizophrenia were considered as a by-product of the disruption in conceptual structures and associative processes related to psychosis. This view has been changed due to increasing evidence that language per se is impaired in schizophrenia, especially its semantic, discursive, and pragmatic aspects. Schizophrenia is currently considered by some authors as a “language related human specific disease” or “logopathy”, and the neuroanatomical and genetic correlates of the language impairment in these patients are under investigation. Such efforts may lead to a better understanding about the pathophysiology of this devastating mental disease. We present some current concepts related to FTD as opposed to primary neurolinguistic abnormalities in schizophrenia.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2013000100012&lng=en&tlng=enesquizofreniapensamentotranstornos da linguagempensamentolinguísticatranstornos psicóticos
spellingShingle Marcia Radanovic
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Formal Thought Disorder and language impairment in schizophrenia
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
esquizofrenia
pensamento
transtornos da linguagem
pensamento
linguística
transtornos psicóticos
title Formal Thought Disorder and language impairment in schizophrenia
title_full Formal Thought Disorder and language impairment in schizophrenia
title_fullStr Formal Thought Disorder and language impairment in schizophrenia
title_full_unstemmed Formal Thought Disorder and language impairment in schizophrenia
title_short Formal Thought Disorder and language impairment in schizophrenia
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topic esquizofrenia
pensamento
transtornos da linguagem
pensamento
linguística
transtornos psicóticos
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