Distractibility and Discourse Failure Their Association in Mania and Schizophrenia

Harvey, Philip D.; Earle-Boyer, Elizabeth A.; Levinson, Joyce C.

doi:10.1097/00005053-198605000-00003

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“…The results of this investigation replicate earlier findings (Cornblatt et al 1985; Harvey 1985; Harvey et al 1986; Walker and Harvey, in press) about the correlation of positive thought disorder and certain types of information-processing performance. We have also demonstrated that cognitive deficits (serial recall/distraction deficits and reality monitoring performance), positive thought disorder, and their associations are all relatively stable during the middle of an acute admission for both manic and schizophrenic patients.…”

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confidence: 88%

Cognitive Deficits and Thought Disorder: A Retest Study

Harvey

Earle-Boyer

Levinson

1988

Schizophrenia Bulletin

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Manic (n = 26), schizophrenic (n = 26), and normal (n = 25) subjects were examined with a digit span distraction task and with a reality monitoring task. All subjects were tested twice at a 4-day interval, and a clinical assessment of thought disorder was conducted both times on the patients. We found that reality monitoring, distraction task performance, and clinical thought disorder were all quite stable at the retest interval. We further found that different patterns of correlational relationships between cognitive deficits and positive and negative thought disorders were present in the manic and schizophrenic samples. When we conducted a cross-temporal analysis of our data, we found that no cognitive deficits in mania predicted the severity of positive thought disorder over time, although the severity of thought disorder predicted distraction performance over time. In the schizophrenic subjects, distraction performance, but not reality monitoring, exerted a significant cross-temporal influence on positive thought disorder.

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Cognitive Deficits and Thought Disorder: A Retest Study

Harvey

Earle-Boyer

Levinson

1988

Schizophrenia Bulletin

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“…Furthermore, studies that have used more communication-oriented measures of speech disorder have tended to find stronger associations with cognitive test performance than those using measures of formal thought disorder or linguistic dysfunction (5,14). Perhaps the most notable exception to the generally weak associations between cognitive test performance and speech disorder (after controlling for generalized deficit effects) was reported by Harvey and colleagues (15), who identified a strong association between auditory distractibility and the frequency of incompetent references in speech. Their study was unusual in two ways: it used a purely communicationoriented measure of speech, and it found a strong effect.…”

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The Cognitive Origins of Specific Types of Schizophrenic Speech Disturbances

Docherty

Strauss²,

Dinzeo³

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AJP

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“…Two of these areas are 'intonation' and 'cohesion'. Cohesion has been used to study the language of schizophrenics (Rochester & Martin, 1979), the aging (Ulatowska, Hagaski, Cannito & Fleming, 1986), mania and schizophrenia (Harvey, Earle-Boyer & Levinson, 1986), and a mixed group of psychiatric diagnoses (Bartolucci & Fine, 1987). Cohesion in PDD subjects will be the topic of a companion paper.…”

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The Use of Intonation to Communicate in Pervasive Developmental Disorders

Fine

Bartolucci

Ginsberg

et al. 1991

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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The objective of this paper was to employ a functional linguistic approach to explore pragmatic failure in the spontaneous speech of subjects with pervasive developmental disorders (PDD). Patterns of intonation use were compared among subjects with Asperger's syndrome (AS), high-functioning autism (HFA), and psychiatric out-patient controls (OPC) with a variety of non-specific social problems. Written transcripts and audio-recordings were used to measure rates of various intonation types relative to the amount of speech produced. The major finding of the study was that the HFA subjects less often tend to employ useful patterns of intonation for communication than the AS or OPC groups. This suggests that HFA either send random intonation signals to hearers or else demonstrate systematic misuse of the linguistic system. AS subjects differed little from the controls. The implications of these results for understanding the communicative failure of PDD subjects is discussed.

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Distractibility and Discourse Failure Their Association in Mania and Schizophrenia

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Cognitive Deficits and Thought Disorder: A Retest Study

Cognitive Deficits and Thought Disorder: A Retest Study

The Cognitive Origins of Specific Types of Schizophrenic Speech Disturbances

The Use of Intonation to Communicate in Pervasive Developmental Disorders

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