LANGUAGE DYSFUNCTION THAT IS/OR THOUGHT DISORDER IN SCHIZOPHRENIA

One of the most obvious symptoms of schizophrenia is the blurred communication, the abnormal speech and thinking. This review tries to look over the literature in this topic about clinical findings, neuropsychological studies, researches with brain imaging techniques, and so on. There are several questions like definition and nature of this symptom, functional background of it or the methods of studies used. However, we are getting closer to answers, there are several issues unexplained. As a whole, the phenomenon of language dysfunction or thought disorder in schizophrenia is an interdisciplinary, challenging and inspirative issue, which could give new perspectives to understand not only schizophrenia itself, but the human mind as well.