Meanings of formal thought disorder in English

No individuals with psychotic symptoms had a formal thought disorder, incoherence of speech, or flat affect.

Conclusions: In line with Spitzer and Maher it is inferred that disinhibited semantic networks underlie formal thought disorder in schizophrenia.

Left frontoparietotemporal dysfunction in schizophrenia has been previously associated with a range of abnormalities, including formal thought disorder, working memory dysfunction and sensory hallucinations.

Formal thought disorders were accompanied by increased rCBF in the bilateral frontal interior and left temporal superior regions.