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Ordering Thoughts on Thought Disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

John McGrath
John McGrath*
Affiliation:
Clinical Studies Unit, and Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Queensland, Australia
*
Wolston Park Hospital, Wacol, Queensland 4076, Australia
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Abstract

A common denominator can be found permeating thought disorder at various levels – the lack of executive planning and editing. With data available from aphasiology and neuropsychology, certain features of thought disorder can be reinterpreted as being consistent with dysfunction of the frontal lobe. It is hypothesised that thought disorder may reflect a dysfunction of the cortical–subcortical loops that project into the pre-frontal cortex. The hypothesis predicts that thought-disordered patients will have impaired performance on tests of frontal lobe function, regardless of diagnosis.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 158 , Issue 3 , March 1991 , pp. 307 - 316
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991 

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