Thought Disorder in the Childhood Psychoses

1990 ◽  
pp. 175-206
Author(s):  
Rochelle Caplan ◽  
Tracey Sherman
Keyword(s):  
Thought Disorder ◽  
Childhood Psychoses

III. the Family and Social Background in Childhood Psychoses

1971 ◽  
Vol 118 (545) ◽  
pp. 396-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Kolvin ◽  
C. Ounsted ◽  
L. M. Richardson ◽  
R. F. Garside
Keyword(s):  
Late Onset ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Thought Disorder ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
The Family ◽  
Gaze Avoidance ◽  
Clinical Pictures ◽  
Childhood Psychoses

The first paper of this sequence discussed the division of childhood psychoses into those with onset before the age of 3 (infantile psychoses, I.P.) and those with onset after the age of 5 (late onset psychoses, L.O.P.). The second paper described in detail the clinical phenomena in 80 psychotic children so classified at Oxford or Newcastle (see Table I), and showed that this division corresponded to clear-cut distinctions in the clinical pictures. The I.P. group showed gaze avoidance, abnormal pre-occupations, self-isolating patterns of behaviour, echolalia, overactivity. The L.O.P. group showed hallucinations and thought disorder. With these two groups clearly established we now look to see whether anything in their family and background also distinguishes them.

Thought disorder symptoms at intake moderate change during psychotherapy

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Torstrick ◽  
Richard Morrissey ◽  
Gladys Rocque ◽  
Niketa Kumar ◽  
William Chaplin
Keyword(s):  
Thought Disorder ◽  
Moderate Change

scholarly journals Neurobiological substrates of the positive formal thought disorder in schizophrenia revealed by seed connectome-based predictive modeling

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 102666
Author(s):  
Ji Chen ◽  
Tobias Wensing ◽  
Felix Hoffstaedter ◽  
Edna C. Cieslik ◽  
Veronika I. Müller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Predictive Modeling ◽  
Thought Disorder ◽  
Formal Thought Disorder ◽  
Neurobiological Substrates

scholarly journals Amusia and protolanguage impairments in schizophrenia

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (13) ◽  
pp. 2739-2748 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. T. Kantrowitz ◽  
N. Scaramello ◽  
A. Jakubovitz ◽  
J. M. Lehrfeld ◽  
P. Laukka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Remediation ◽  
Thought Disorder ◽  
Musical Ability ◽  
Group Status ◽  
Treatment Development ◽  
Discrimination Ability ◽  
Syndrome Scale ◽  
Language And Music ◽  
Auditory Tasks ◽  
Negative Syndrome

BackgroundBoth language and music are thought to have evolved from a musical protolanguage that communicated social information, including emotion. Individuals with perceptual music disorders (amusia) show deficits in auditory emotion recognition (AER). Although auditory perceptual deficits have been studied in schizophrenia, their relationship with musical/protolinguistic competence has not previously been assessed.MethodMusical ability was assessed in 31 schizophrenia/schizo-affective patients and 44 healthy controls using the Montreal Battery for Evaluation of Amusia (MBEA). AER was assessed using a novel battery in which actors provided portrayals of five separate emotions. The Disorganization factor of the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) was used as a proxy for language/thought disorder and the MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery (MCCB) was used to assess cognition.ResultsHighly significant deficits were seen between patients and controls across auditory tasks (p < 0.001). Moreover, significant differences were seen in AER between the amusia and intact music-perceiving groups, which remained significant after controlling for group status and education. Correlations with AER were specific to the melody domain, and correlations between protolanguage (melody domain) and language were independent of overall cognition.DiscussionThis is the first study to document a specific relationship between amusia, AER and thought disorder, suggesting a shared linguistic/protolinguistic impairment. Once amusia was considered, other cognitive factors were no longer significant predictors of AER, suggesting that musical ability in general and melodic discrimination ability in particular may be crucial targets for treatment development and cognitive remediation in schizophrenia.

Childhood Autism and Social Class: A Question of Selection?

1980 ◽  
Vol 137 (5) ◽  
pp. 410-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorna Wing
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Early Years ◽  
National Society ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Class Bias ◽  
Class A ◽  
The Social ◽  
Autistic Behaviour ◽  
Childhood Psychoses

SummaryChildren with typical autism, other early childhood psychoses and severe mental retardation without autistic behaviour were identified in an epidemiological study in an area of South East London. The social class distribution of their fathers was examined and no significant differences were found between the groups, nor in a comparison with the general population of the area. Fathers of children with autism and related conditions referred to an out-patient clinic with a special interest in autism, mostly at their own request, and fathers joining the National Society for Autistic Children, were of higher social class than both the average for England and Wales and the fathers of the study children. Joining the NSAC during its early years, and keeping up membership were also linked with higher social class. The findings supported the view that reports of a social class bias in autism may be explained by factors affecting referral and diagnosis.

Objective Measures of Thinking Integrated with Psychiatric Symptoms

1965 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 539-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. J. Craig
Keyword(s):  
Principal Components ◽  
Concept Formation ◽  
Psychiatric Symptoms ◽  
Thought Disorder ◽  
Objective Measures ◽  
Curvilinear Relationship ◽  
Factor Scores

Considering (1) overinclusion to be related to symptoms of paranoia, delusions, thought-disorder, and ideas of reference, and (2) retardation of speed to be related to depression and slowness, scores for 66 patients were examined on 11 tests of these dimensions. Thirty-eight variables in rotated principal components gave these factors: (a) overinclusion, (b) poor concept formation, and (c) conceptual retardation. The overinclusion hypothesis was confirmed except for ideas of reference. Overinclusion and retardation defined as symptom entities provided better differentiation on factor scores than did the diagnoses of schizophrenia and depression. It was proposed that generalization and mental speed have a curvilinear relationship in which the extremes are directly related to symptoms of disordered thinking and depression.

Formal thought disorder in first-episode psychosis

2016 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 209-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmet Ayer ◽  
Berna Yalınçetin ◽  
Esra Aydınlı ◽  
Şilay Sevilmiş ◽  
Halis Ulaş ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
First Episode Psychosis ◽  
Thought Disorder ◽  
First Episode ◽  
Formal Thought Disorder ◽  
Episode Psychosis

The type—token ratio in schizophrenic disorders: clinical and research value

1984 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theo C. Manschreck ◽  
Brendan A. Maher ◽  
Toni M. Hoover ◽  
Donna Ames
Keyword(s):  
Sensitivity And Specificity ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Thought Disorder ◽  
Clinical Value ◽  
Clinical Sensitivity ◽  
Normal Controls

SynopsisPrior research has indicated that the type-token ratio (TTR), a measure of repetition in language, correlates with clinical judgements of thought disorder when spoken language was examined, and differentiates statistically thought-disordered from non-thought-disordered schizophrenics and psychiatric and normal controls. We replicated this finding and examined the clinical sensitivity and specificity of the TTR measure in the diagnosis and in the assessment of thought disorder. The current clinical value of the TTR is limited, but further investigations of the nature of repetition in schizophrenic language are warranted.

Language Dysfunction in Schizophrenia

1981 ◽  
Vol 139 (6) ◽  
pp. 519-522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond Faber ◽  
Michele Bierenbaum Reichstein
Keyword(s):  
Language Comprehension ◽  
Picture Naming ◽  
Language Disorders ◽  
Thought Disorder ◽  
Formal Thought Disorder ◽  
Token Test ◽  
Naming Test ◽  
Normal Controls

SummarySimilarities between language disorders in aphasia and formal thought disorder in schizophrenia are explored in 24 schizophrenic, 5 manic and 5 depressed psychiatric in-patients, and 28 normal controls. Eight sub-tests from the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination, a picture naming test and the Token Test were administered. Schizophrenics with formal thought disorder showed significant abnormalities compared to all other groups, particularly on the Token Test and the repetition of phrases test. These deficits are suggestive of language comprehension and repetition dysfunctions in a substantial minority of rigorously defined schizophrenics.

The neural correlates of formal thought disorder

2000 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
T. Kircher ◽  
P. Liddle ◽  
M. Brammer ◽  
S. Williams ◽  
A. Simmons ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Correlates ◽  
Thought Disorder ◽  
Formal Thought Disorder
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