[Emotionally-loaded narrative increases dyslogia in schizophrenics].
We tested the degree of dyslogia in the narrative of ten schizophrenic non-medicated outpatients while they narrated emotionally-loaded or neutral facts. The "emotional narratives" were much more dyslogic than the "neutral narratives". In order to explain these facts we evoke: 1. A fronto-temporo-limbic connection dysfunction would disturb an adequate cognitive treatment of emotions that would be, in this way, highly disruptive over logical processes. 2. A working memory/supervisory attentional system dysfunction that would produce both a loss of the normal connections among the fragments of speech and a lack of global strategical planning of the thought.
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Centro Médico-Hospitalar ASMIGO, Médico Psiquiatra-Pesquisador da Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFGO), Brasil.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D013060:Speech