Formal Thought Disorder and language impairment in schizophrenia
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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 schizophrenia were considered as a by-product of the disruption in conceptual structures and associative pr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1678-4227,0004-282X
DOI: 10.1590/s0004-282x2012005000015