Scale for Assessment of Thought, Language and Communication in Psychotic In-Patients

Mazumdar, Pralay Kumar; Chaturvedi, Santosh K.; Sinha, Vinod Kumar; Gopinath, P. S.

doi:10.1159/000284714

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“…Both of these qualities of the scale were confirmed by our study [18]. The assessment of cognitive functions by the Mini Mental State [16] was essentially a dou ble check for those patients who might have escaped the exclusion criteria for organicity.…”

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A Comparative Study of Thought Disorder in Acute and Chronic Schizophrenia

Mazumdar

Chaturvedi²,

Gopinath³

1995

Psychopathology

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A differential phenomenological study of acute and chronic schizophrenia is scanty. Thought disorder was assessed in 22 acute and 23 chronic schizophrenics. The scale for the assessment of thought, language and communication was used. Poverty of speech was significantly more frequent in acute schizophrenia. Positive formal thought disorder was unusually found to be severer in chronic schizophrenia. No other significant difference was found. From the perspective of thought disorder, acute and chronic forms of schizophrenia seem to be in a continuum with minimal difference.

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A Comparative Study of Thought Disorder in Acute and Chronic Schizophrenia

Mazumdar

Chaturvedi²,

Gopinath³

1995

Psychopathology

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“…All speech samples were transcribed by a professional linguist who was blind to both identity and diagnosis of the patients, so that subsequent analyses could rely upon 'objectively' assessed linguistic measures that were unbiased with respect to psychopathology and other speaker-related information [45][46][47].…”

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Linguistic Analysis of the Speech Output of Schizophrenic, Bipolar, and Depressive Patients

Lott¹,

Guggenbühl²,

Schneeberger³

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Psychopathology

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Using speech samples of 100 patients suffering from schizophrenia, bipolar illness and major depression, we addressed the question of the extent to which the linguistic abnormalities in the speech of these patients represent diagnosis-specific characteristics or constitute independent, syndrome-like dimensions of the illnesses. All speech samples were transcribed by a professional linguist who was blind to both identity and diagnosis of the patients. The majority of the deviant linguistic variables was found to be common to all three diagnostic groups under comparison, while only a few linguistic variables exhibited statistically significant between-group differences. On the other hand, when the respective variables were analysed as a multivariate entity, the variety of subtle between-group differences allowed us to discriminate between the diagnostic groups at an overall performance of 72.7% correctly classified patients. There was an almost complete lack of association between linguistic abnormalities and psychopathology syndromes. In particular, we found no correlation between the syndrome ‘formal thought disorder’ and the large variety of linguistic variables used in this investigation. In consequence, we conjecture that linguistically deviant speech characteristics represent an independent syndrome complex manifested at varying intensities across mental illnesses, and that this syndrome complex deserves greater attention, not only with respect to the principal understanding of the underlying disturbances, but also as a potential target of therapeutical intervention.

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“…The Scale for the Assessment of Thought, Language, and Communication is a clinical, interview-based assessment of thought disorder (11) that has been used to assess thought disorder in studies of several psychiatric diagnoses and conditions (12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17). The Scale for the Assessment of Thought, Language, and Communication provides a more comprehensive evaluation of thought disorder than does the BPRS and permits an examination of subfactors (18) that address aspects of thought disorder.…”

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