Thought Disorders in Psychiatric Patients and their Assessments

  • Hiramatsu Ken-Ichi
    Department of Neuropsychiatry,Faculty of Medicine,Tokyo University
  • Hata Akinobu
    Department of Neuropsychiatry,Faculty of Medicine,Tokyo University
  • Fukuda Masato
    Department of Neuropsychiatry,Faculty of Medicine,Tokyo University

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  • 精神疾患患者の思考障害とその定量的評価

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Abstract

The history of research in thought disorders of psychiatric patients is described. After the establishement of the concept of thought disorder by Kraepelin and Bleuler,research of thought disorder concerned mainly on what the main aspect of schizophrenic thought disorders were.Examples of schizophrenic thought disorders are as followed;(1)deficits in abstract thinking,categorization or concept formation,which are called'concreteness'or'overinclusion,'(2)deficits in congnitive focusing such as'stimulus overinclusion,''socially unacceptable thought'and'looseness of association,'(3)deficits in reasoning such as'overgeneralization,''combinatory thinking'and 'predicative logic,'(4)other aspect of language deficits such as 'redundancy'or'low predictability of statements.'Today comprehensive scales for the assessment of thought disorders have been developed and widely used in clincal and biological researches.

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  • CRID
    1570291227507176704
  • NII Article ID
    110003314270
  • NII Book ID
    AN10449078
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • CiNii Articles

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