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	eMedicine - Schizoaffective Disorder : Article Excerpt by Guy E Brannon
		Schizoaffective disorder is a perplexing mental illness distinguished by a combination of symptoms of a thought disorder or other psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations or delusions (schizophrenia component) and those of a mood disorder (depressive or manic component).
		The prognosis for patients with schizoaffective disorder is thought to lie between that of patients with schizophrenia and that of patients with a mood disorder.
		A poor prognosis in patients with schizoaffective disorder is generally associated with a poor premorbid history, an insidious onset, no precipitating factors, a predominant psychosis, negative symptoms, an early onset, an unremitting course, or their having a family member with schizophrenia.
	www.emedicine.com /med/byname/Schizoaffective-Disorder.htm (0 words)

	Thought disorder - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		In psychiatry, thought disorder or formal thought disorder is a term used to describe a pattern of disordered language use that is presumed to reflect disordered thinking.
		It is important to note however that the delusions and hallucinations of psychosis could also be considered as disorders of thought, but that the term formal thought disorder applies specifically to the presumed disruption in the flow of conscious verbal thought that is inferred from spoken language.
		For example, thought disorder is inferred from disordered speech, however it is assumed that disordered speech arises because of disordered thought.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Thought_disorder (891 words)

	AES Abstract
		This study examined if the impaired discourse skills or thought disorder found in children with cryptogenic complex partial seizures (CPS) (Caplan et al., 2006) is related to abnormal volumes of frontal and temporal regions associated with language compared to age and gender matched normal children.
		Given the low base rate of thought disorder in normal children, our findings imply that impaired maturation of OFG (i.e., larger gray matter volumes) might be related to abnormal discourse skills in normal children.
		However, the findings in the CPS subjects with thought disorder, suggest that the discourse deficits of these children might reflect increased vulnerability of language related brain regions, STG and HG, as well as OFG to the impact of CPS on normal development.
	www.aesnet.org /Visitors/AnnualMeeting/Abstractsnew/dsp_Abstract.cfm?id=227 (372 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Psychosis
		Psychosis (not to be confused with psychopathy) is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state in which thought and perception are severely impaired.
		Without careful assessment, delirium can easily be confused with psychosis and a number of other psychiatric disorders because many of the signs and symptoms are conditions present in psychosis.
		Psychosis in schizophrenia and perhaps schizophreniform disorder appears to be related to abnormalities in the structure and chemistry of the brain, and appears to have strong genetic links; but its course and severity can be altered by social factors such as stress or a lack of support within the family.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/psychosis (1247 words)

	Davison / Abnormal Psychology, Canadian Edition / Student Glossary
		It may be a temporary reaction to stress and fatigue or part of panic disorder, depersonalization disorder, or schizophrenia.
		People with this disorder may feel that their extremities have changed in size or that they are watching themselves from a distance.
		dissociative disorders: Disorders in which the normal integration of consciousness, memory, or identity is suddenly and temporarily altered; dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue, dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality), and depersonalization disorder are examples.
	www.wiley.com /legacy/products/worldwide/canada/davison/student/s_glossary_d.html (1635 words)

	Language in India
		The position that thought is a highly integrated bodily activity is in contrast with the psychophysical dualism that considered language as the expression of thought through the use of speech sounds.
		Thought must be defined as "the highest latent or potential content of speech, the content that is obtained by interpreting each of the elements in the flow of language as possessed of its very fullest conceptual value." Thus language and thought are not strictly coterminous.
		The reasons for the egocentric speech and thought are to be found in the type of social intercourse between the children of less than seven or eight years and in the fact that language used in the fundamental activity of the child, namely, play, is one of gestures, movement and mimicry as much as words.
	www.languageinindia.com /oct2003/langacquisition.html (19746 words)

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		Formal thought disorder was defined as the presence of incoherence, or the abnormal use of words.
		Greater formal thought disorder, elicited during the Rorschach responses, was associated with lesser activity in the left superior temporal gyrus and, to a lesser extent, in the posterior part of the middle temporal gyrus.
		Greater formal thought disorder was associated with greater activity in the cerebellar vermis, the right caudate body, and the precentral gyrus.
	www.indegene.com /Psy/Jour/prn_indJour_AGP_Sum_01-08-2001_2.asp (284 words)

	Can Formal Thought Disorder Be Treated?
		Formal thought disorder is one of the symptoms of schizophrenia.
		First there are the behavior disorders such as catatonia in which the ill person may hold the same position for hours on end, unable to speak or to eat.
		Often in formal thought disorder the disturbed thinking becomes obvious to observers through speech or writing that sounds strange or disconnected, even to the point of being impossible to understand.
	askdrrobert.dr-robert.com /formalthoughtdisorder.html (0 words)

	Glossary On-Line - Psychiatry
		Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterised by excess control - a morbid fear of obesity leads the sufferer to try and limit or reduce their weight by excessive dieting, exercising, vomiting, purging and use of diuretics.
		The variability is not as severe in amplitude or duration as to be classified as a major affective disorder.
		An affective disorder characterised by a profound and persistent sadness.
	www.priory.com /gloss.htm (1540 words)

	LEFT TEMPORAL LOBE ABNORMALITIES IN SCHIZOPHRENIA AND THOUGHT DISORDER: A QUANTITATIVE MRI STUDY
		As illustrated in Figure 4, for the schizophrenic patients there was a strong negative correlation between total thought disorder score and absolute volume of left posterior superior temporal gyrus (r=-0.81, P=0.001; r=-0.78, P=0.002 for relative volume) indicating that 66% of the thought disorder variance was explained by this relationship.
		In schizophrenics there was a strong correlation between amount of thought disorder, a cardinal neurobehavioral symptom of schizophrenia, and reduced volume in left posterior superior temporal gyrus, a region long considered important as a neuroanatomical substrate of language.
		Thought disorder is a hallmark symptom of schizophrenia [25], and has characteristics that differ from thought disorder in other psychoses.
	splweb.bwh.harvard.edu:8000 /pages/papers/martha/nejm.html (6100 words)

	Schizophrenia: Schizophrenia and Delusional Disorder: Merck Manual Home Edition
		They may have delusions of thought withdrawal or thought insertion, believing that others can read their mind, that their thoughts are being transmitted to others, or that thoughts and impulses are being imposed on them by outside forces.
		Thought disorder refers to disorganized thinking, which becomes apparent when speech is rambling, shifts from one topic to another, and loses its goal-directed quality.
		This personality disorder (see Personality Disorders: Schizotypal Personality) may share symptoms of schizophrenia, but they are generally not so severe as to meet the criteria for psychosis.
	www.merck.com /mmhe/print/sec07/ch107/ch107b.html (2952 words)

	AES Abstract
		Prenatal and Perinatal Correlates of Formal Thought Disorder in Pediatric Epilepsy
		The current investigation examined the relationship between measures of thought disorder and pre/perinatal factors in a sample of 62 CPS, 52 PGE and 68 nonepileptic children aged 5 to 16.
		The relationship of maternal, drug, and obstetric factors with thought disorder in the CPS imply a possible acute effect of prenatal factors on the development of this seizure disorder and on neural circuits involved in these aspects of language development.
	www.aesnet.org /Visitors/AnnualMeeting/Abstracts/dsp_Abstract.cfm?id=2698&referrer=PresentationList (294 words)

	Schizophrenia - Interview with Dr. Martha Shenton
		I, too, was interested in studying schizophrenia and focusing on the hallmark symptoms of schizophrenia, including delusions, hallucinations, and formal thought disorder, seemed to be an important area of scientific inquiry.
		My goal was to further understand formal thought disorder in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia as well as studying these same cognitive abnormalities in the first-degree relatives of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia.
		As patients with schizophrenia are known to have problems with differentiating relevant from irrelevant information in the environment, I thought it would be of interest to evaluate this event related potential in conjunction with measures of cognitive functioning such as formal thought disorder and delusions and hallucinations.
	www.esi-topics.com /schizophrenia/interviews/dr-martha-shenton.html (1747 words)

	Medical World Search
		Thought disorder is the diminished ability to think clearly and logically.
		Psychosis: a mental disorder causing gross distortion or disorganization of a person's mental capacity, emotional response, and capacity to recognize reality, communicate, and relate to others to the degree of interfering with his or her capacity to cope with the ordinary demands of everyday life.
		Schizophrenia: the most common type of psychosis characterized by a disorder in the thinking processes, such as delusions and hallucinations, an extensive withdrawal of the individuals's interest from other people in the outside world, and the investment of it in his own.
	www.mwsearch.com /schizophrenia.html (2358 words)

	Schizophrenia - Symptoms, Treatment and Prevention
		Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder characterized by two kinds of symptoms; positive psychotic symptoms - thought disorder, hallucinations, delusions, and paranoia - and negative symptoms — impairment in emotional range, energy, and enjoyment of activities.
		Common forms of thought disorder include circumstantiality (talking in circles around the issue), looseness of associations (moving from one topic to the next without any logical connection between them), and tangentiality (moving from one topic to another where the logical connection is visible, but not relevant to the issue at hand).
		They may believe that their thoughts are being controlled by others or are being broadcast over the public airways, or that outside thoughts are being implanted in their heads.
	www.healthscout.com /ency/113/472/main.html (1159 words)

	Schizoaffective disorder
		Schizoaffective disorder is a mental illness that shares the psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia and the mood disturbances of depression or bipolar disorder.
		The term schizoaffective disorder was first used in the 1930s to describe patients with acute psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions along with disturbed mood.
		For patients with symptoms of bipolar disorder, lithium is often the mood stabilizer of choice; and it is often augmented with an anticonvulsant such as valproate.
	www.healthatoz.com /healthatoz/Atoz/ency/schizoaffective_disorder.jsp (1151 words)

	Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General - Chapter 4
		Disorganized speech/thinking, also described as “thought disorder” or “loosening of associations,” is a key aspect of schizophrenia.
		The differences in outcomes between the studies are thought to be explained on the basis of differences in patient age, length of followup, expectations about prognosis, and types of services received (Harrow et al., 1997).
		This delay is thought to be related to the protective effects of estrogen, the levels of which diminish at menopause.
	www.surgeongeneral.gov /library/mentalhealth/chapter4/sec4.html (3543 words)

	thought field therapy for weight loss, anxiety, stress management, trauma
		Thought field therapy with Callahan techniques® is a brief, effective psychotherapy for the rapid resolution of negative emotions and psychological problems including weight loss issues, stress relief, trauma, anxiety and others.
		Thought field therapy with Callahan techniques® is a powerful therapy exerted through nature's healing system to balance the body's energy system.
		Callahan techniques® Thought field therapy is a natural, drug-free approach to weight loss, anxiety and other daily problems, with rapid results that can be documented with heart rate variability measurements.
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	Thought disorder - Schizophrenia: Schizophrenia and Delusional Disorder: Merck Manual
		Schizoaffective Disorder is an often debilitating mental illness characterized by symptoms of a thought disorder (hallucinations and/or irrational thinking)
		Single Thought Disorder is a 5 piece metal band, from in and around the Edinburgh area.
		To be included in the analysis, symptoms needed to be clearly identified in the record as hallucinations, delusions, or thought disorder.
	hardwood-floors.surferfind.com /?q=hardwood-floors-thought-disorder (184 words)

	NIMH: Schizophrenia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Another form is "thought blocking," in which the person stops abruptly in the middle of a thought.
		Several of these genes are thought to be associated with an increased risk of schizophrenia, but scientists believe that each gene has a very small effect and is not responsible for causing the disease by itself.
		Support for those with mental disorders can come from families, professional residential or day program caregivers, shelter operators, friends or roommates, professional case managers, or others in their communities or places of worship who are concerned about their welfare.
	www.nimh.nih.gov /publicat/schizoph.cfm (4932 words)

	negative formal thought disorder - General Practice Notebook (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This is the opposite of positive formal thought disorder in that the links between thoughts are very rigid.
		The patient is unable to think in abstract terms and will give an over-literal interpretation of proverbs e.g.
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	www.gpnotebook.co.uk /cache/-40239071.htm (129 words)

	Cognitive impairments and disordered speech in schizophrenia: thought disorder, disorganization, and communication ...
		Cognitive impairments and disordered speech in schizophrenia: thought disorder, disorganization, and communication failure perspectives.
		This article posits that basic cognitive impairments in schizophrenia are more highly related to speech disorder measured as communication failures than speech disorder measured as thought disorder or disorganization.
		Attention and sequencing impairments, examined hierarchically, explained a substantial 38% of the variance in the communication measure of speech disorder but little of the variance in formal thought disorder or conceptual disorganization.
	schizophrenia.researchtoday.net /archive/2/5/349.htm (226 words)

	Formal thought disorder
		In psychiatry, thought disorder or formal thought disorder is a term used to describe a symptom of psychotic mental illness.
		An increase in the amount of spontaneous speech compared to what is considered customary.
		Failure to show a chain of thought to a natural conclusion.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/f/fo/formal_thought_disorder.html (488 words)

	Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia Key Found
		These symptoms are also seen in people with bipolar disorder and with schizophrenia.
		Recent studies also link worsening bipolar disorder and schizophrenia with changes in brain signaling by a molecule called protein kinase C or PKC.
		regulation of behavior and thought, possibly contributing to signs of prefrontal cortical dysfunction such as distractibility, impaired judgment, impulsivity, and thought disorder," Arnsten and colleagues write.
	www.webmd.com /schizophrenia/news/20041028/bipolar-disorder-schizophrenia-key-found (0 words)

	Eating Disorder Talk
		Results of the first-ever Latino-focused eating disorder study were published recently, showing binge eating to be of high concern.
		The researchers associated with a study that Keel bases her claims on are looking for participants for a follow up, so if you are someone who purges to maintain or lose weight, or a true bulimic who binges and purges (via vomiting or laxative use, and/or over exercising) please consider contacting Keel for more information.
		An interesting thought is that current estimates of males with eating disorders are making up 10% of the total amount of sufferers, yet in this article they’ve stated that 70% of the members of The Calorie Restriction Society are male.
	www.eatingdisordertalk.com (0 words)

	Thought disorder . Enpsychlopedia
		Eugen Bleuler, who named schizophrenia, held that its defining characteristic was a disorder of the thinking process.Colman, A. Oxford Dictionary of Psychology, Oxford University Press.
		ISBN 0-19-860761-X It is important to note however that the delusions and hallucinations of psychosis could also be considered as disorders of thought, but that the term formal thought disorder applies specifically to the presumed disruption in the flow of conscious verbal thought that is inferred from spoken language.
		The concept of thought disorder has been criticised as being based on circular or incoherent definitionsBentall, R. Madness explained: Psychosis and Human Nature.
	enpsychlopedia.org /psypsych/Formal_thought_disorder (864 words)

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