Verbal and Nonverbal Expressions of Central Deficits in Schizophrenia

Goren, Anat; Fine, Jonathan; Manaim, Hillel; Apter, Alan

doi:10.1097/00005053-199511000-00009

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“…This pause type did not show a differential association with flat affect and alogia (Alpert et al, 1994). Goren, Fine, Manahim, and Apter (1995) showed that blocking symptoms were expressed linguistically by pauses causing the patient to lose track of the conversation. In this case study, blocking is viewed as an expression of a central cognitive deficit in carrying out a plan.…”

Section: Turn-taking and Nonverbal Clustersmentioning

confidence: 81%

Language Performance in Chronic Schizophrenia

Meilijson

Kasher

Elizur

2004

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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In this study, the authors examined the language of 43 participants with chronic schizophrenia under the basic assumption that a paradigmatic shift is needed in the methodology used to investigate the language of schizophrenia. The pragmatic protocol (C. Prutting and D. Kirchner, 1987) was chosen as the method of analysis to attain a general profile of pragmatic abilities. The results showed that the participants with schizophrenia exhibited a high degree of inappropriate pragmatic abilities compared to participants with mixed anxiety-depression disorder and participants with hemispheric brain damage, as previously assessed by Prutting and Kirchner. Statistical methods for clustering analysis yielded 5 distinct parameter clusters: Topic, Speech Acts, Turn-Taking, Lexical, and Nonverbal. Group clustering analysis of the 43 participants with schizophrenia produced 3 distinct groups with different profiles: minimal impairment, lexical impairment, and interactional impairment. The results are discussed in terms of theoretical implications in the area of pragmatics, the diagnosis of schizophrenia, and other goals.

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Section: Turn-taking and Nonverbal Clustersmentioning

confidence: 81%