Meanings of thought disorder in English

We also highlight challenges for understanding thought disorder within an RDoC framework.

Moreover, thought disorder is dynamic over time and context within individuals.

These processes are implicated in hallucinations, delusions, and thought disorder.

As a result, an increasing incidence of thought disorder was detected in relatives of schizophrenics.

Frontotemporal activations during language processing tasks were predictive of thought disorder and auditory illusory experiences.

Several authors have investigated the presence of thought disorder in psychiatric patients using different reliable methods.

In line with previous research, basic symptoms correlated with thought disorder but not with positive symptoms.

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

Results: Presence of thought disorder, any delusions and elevated mood significantly predicted transition to a psychotic disorder.

In this commentary, we discuss ways in which thought disorder can be understood within the RDoC framework.

Results were not moderated by sociodemographic background variables, psychomotor slowing and psychopathological symptoms other than thought disorder.

However, when the effects of neuroleptic-induced disturbances were controlled for, thought disorder also insignificantly correlated with basic symptoms.

Within the schizophrenic group, departure from the normal left greater than right pattern was highly correlated with thought disorder.

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

In sum, RDoC is a useful framework to integrate multidisciplinary research efforts aimed at operationalizing, understanding, and ameliorating thought disorder.

There is now considerable evidence supporting the separation of schizophrenic symptoms into three domains: hallucinations and delusions, thought disorder, and deficit symptoms.