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Language Dysfunction in Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Raymond Faber  and
Michele Bierenbaum Reichstein
Raymond Faber
Affiliation:
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Audie Murphy Veterans Hospital, San Antonio, Texas 78284, U.S.A.
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Summary

Similarities between language disorders in aphasia and formal thought disorder in schizophrenia are explored in 24 schizophrenic, 5 manic and 5 depressed psychiatric in-patients, and 28 normal controls. Eight sub-tests from the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination, a picture naming test and the Token Test were administered. Schizophrenics with formal thought disorder showed significant abnormalities compared to all other groups, particularly on the Token Test and the repetition of phrases test. These deficits are suggestive of language comprehension and repetition dysfunctions in a substantial minority of rigorously defined schizophrenics.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 139 , Issue 6 , December 1981 , pp. 519 - 522
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1981 

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