PCL102H1 Lecture Notes - Putamen, Smoking And Pregnancy, Hyperfunction
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Comment: he really is talking about 2 different sorts of thought disorder: #1: positive : disorganized irrational thinking: schizophrenics have great difficulty arranging their thoughts logically and sorting out plausible conclusions from absurd ones. In conversation they jump from one topic to another as new associations come up. Sometimes they utter meaningless words or chose words for rhyme rather than meaning. : probably the most important symptom of schizophrenia , this is a pretty good description of hebephrenic thought, and it apparently assorts with positive symptoms. He probably no longer thinks it"s the most important . #2: negative or cognitive : poor attention, low motor speed, poor learning and memory, poor abstract thinking, poor problem solving: this is different from #1. It pretty well adds up to stupidity, and. Carlson says it isn"t specific to schizophrenia but is also found in other brain damage syndromes - especially in cases of pfc damage.
