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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF THOUGHT DISORDER

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WHAT DOES THOUGHT DISORDER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Thought disorder

In psychiatry, thought disorder or formal thought disorder refers to disorganized thinking as evidenced by disorganized speech. Specific thought disorders include derailment, poverty of speech, tangentiality, illogicality, perseveration, neologism, and thought blocking. Psychiatrists consider formal thought disorder as being one of two types of disordered thinking, with the other type being delusions. The latter involves "content" while the former involves "form". Although the term "thought disorder" can refer to either type, in common parlance it refers most often to a disorder of thought "form" also known as formal thought disorder. Eugen Bleuler, who named schizophrenia, held that thought disorder was its defining characteristic. However, formal thought disorder is not unique to schizophrenia or psychosis. It is often a symptom of mania, and less often it can be present in other mental disorders such as depression. Clanging or echolalia may be present in Tourette syndrome. Patients with a clouded consciousness, like that found in delirium, also have a formal thought disorder. However, there is a clinical difference between these two groups.

Definition of thought disorder in the English dictionary

The definition of thought disorder in the dictionary is a cognitive disorder in which the patient's thoughts or conversations are characterized by irrationality or sudden changes of subject.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THOUGHT DISORDER

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WORDS THAT END LIKE THOUGHT DISORDER

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Translation of «thought disorder» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF THOUGHT DISORDER

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Translator English - Chinese

思维障碍
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

trastorno del pensamiento
570 millions of speakers

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thought disorder
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सोचा विकार
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

يعتقد اضطراب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

расстройства мышления
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

transtornos do pensamento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

চিন্তার ব্যাধি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

trouble pensé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Gangguan pemikiran
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Denkstörungen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

思考障害
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

생각 장애
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gangguan pikiran
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

rối loạn suy nghĩ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சிந்தனை சீர்குலைவு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विचार विस्कळीत
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Düşünce bozukluğu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

disturbo del pensiero
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zaburzenia myślenia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

розлади мислення
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tulburare crezut
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

διαταραχές της σκέψης
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

gedink wanorde
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

tankestörningar
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

tankeforstyrrelser
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THOUGHT DISORDER»

The term «thought disorder» is normally little used and occupies the 116.613 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about thought disorder

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THOUGHT DISORDER»

Discover the use of thought disorder in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to thought disorder and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Comprehensive Handbook of Psychological Assessment, ...
Kleiger (1999) summarized a number of the controversial issues that have plagued the concept of thought disorder. Is thought disorder better understood as a "speech or language disorder"? Is it specific to and pathognomic of schizophrenia?
Michel Hersen, 2004
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The Medical Basis of Psychiatry
These results also indicate the usefulness of subdividing thought disorder into various clinical subtypes. Follow-up studies also have been conducted to determine the prognostic significance of thought disorder (22). When manic patients are ...
S. Hossein Fatemi, Norman Sartorius, Paula J. Clayton, 2008
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Symptoms of Schizophrenia
Overall, severe signs of positive thought disorder are common to acute states of schizophrenia. Although positive thought disorder can be attenuated by neurolep - tic medication, residual thought disorder, negative thought disorder, and ...
Charles G. Costello, 1993
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Seminars in General Adult Psychiatry
For example, the combination of markedly unstable goal with idiosyncratic use of language generates incoherence and, in extreme cases, 'word salad' ( verbigeration). Of these three classes of formal thought disorder, idiosyncrasy of thought ...
George Stein, Greg Wilkinson, 2007
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Psychotic Disorders: A Practical Guide
If patients do not seem to make sense, not because of what they say but how they say it, a formal thought disorder (or disorder of thought process) might be present. Because we can only judge how somebody thinks by what the person says, ...
Oliver Freudenreich, 2007
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The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Schizophrenia
This discrete dimension has been variably called "disorganization factor," " cognitive factor," or "thought disorder factor." Symptoms that contribute to the SAPS disorganization factor are disorganized speech, inappropriate affect, and bizarre ...
Jeffrey A. Lieberman, T. Scott Stroup, Diana O. Perkins, 2007
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Handbook of Psychological Assessment
The term formal thought disorder is utilized to suggest the presence of abnormalities in the form and organization of the patient's thought. The less commonly used tenn, content thought disorder, refers specifically to the presence of delusions, ...
G. Goldstein, Michel Hersen, 2000
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Cognitive-behavior Therapy for Severe Mental Illness: An ...
significant thought disorder, these basic techniques are a mainstay of therapeutic efforts. The only method listed in Table 10–4 not demonstrated in the videos is the use of audio or video recordings to assist patients with thought disorder.
‎2009
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Language, Learning, and Behavior Disorders: Developmental, ...
Formal thought disorder represents clinical measures of the form or manner in which the patient presents his or her thoughts to the listener. The DSM-IV ( American Psychiatric Association, 1994) uses the term disorganized speech (e.g. , ...
Joseph H. Beitchman, 1996
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Schizophrenia: A New Guide for Clinicians
This finding challenges the diagnostic specificity of thought disorder by showing that it may be simply a component of acute psychosis. Symptoms of thought disorder are typically grouped into two broad categories: disorder of form and ...
John G. Csernansky, 2002

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THOUGHT DISORDER»

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Why OCD Is 'Miserable': A Science Reporter's Obsession With …
You can't outthink a thought disorder. Logic is no response to an irrational thought. And so I still get anxious about HIV in loads of different ways that I shouldn't. «NPR, Jan 15»
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Schizotypal Disorder: Similar to Other Disorders, Yet Unique
Not to be confused with schizophrenia, nor schizoaffective disorder (which it is ... of course, could be easily confused with symptoms of thought disorders, but ... «PsychCentral.com, Jul 13»
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Unlocking the brain; CU doctors study thought disorder
Discerning the difference between the two cases, why one person develops a thought disorder such as schizophrenia while another shows all the signs of it but ... «Denver Post, Aug 12»
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Neural correlates of formal thought disorder
Given the probability of underlying deficits in contextual integration and theory of mind, formal thought disorder yields a fertile ground for structural and functional ... «British Journal of Psychiatry, Jun 09»
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What Is Schizophrenia? What Causes Schizophrenia?
The Schizophrenic Disorders Clinic3 at the Stanford School of Medicine describes schizophrenia as "a thought disorder: a brain disorder that interferes with a ... «Medical News Today, Feb 06»

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