Thought disorders (Part of schizophrenia PP)

Question 1

What is a thought disorder?

What is delusional thinking?

Answer 1

Question 2

What are some examples Disorders of STREAM OF THOUGHT ?

Answer 2

Question 3

Explain preservation.

Explain echolalia.

Answer 3

Question 4

Explain pressure of speech.

Explain poverty of speech.

Answer 4

Question 5

Explain clanging or clag associations.

Answer 5

Clang associations are groupings of words, usually rhyming words, that are based on similar-sounding sounds, even though the words themselves don’t have any logical reason to be grouped together.

Question 6

Explain neologism.

Answer 6

Question 7

Explain Word salad.

Answer 7

Question 8

Some can be grouped together as “Loosening of Associations”. There is a problem with the FORMATION OF THOUGHTS …the way in which the patient think.

What are the examples of these?

Answer 8

Derailment
Knight’s Move Thinking
Circumstantiality
Flight of Ideas

Question 9

Explain Derailement.

Answer 9

Question 10

Explain Knights move thinking (Tangential thinking).

Answer 10

Question 11

Explain Flight of ideas.

Answer 11

Question 12

What type of thought disorders are you likely to see in Mania ?

Answer 12

Question 13

What type of thought disorders are you likely to see in schizoprenia?

Answer 13

Question 14

What type of thought disorders are you likely to see in Dementia ?

Answer 14