Meaningful confusions and confusing meanings in communication in schizophrenia.
Unconventional discourse in schizophrenia has been speculated to be attributable to the mixing up of symbols and signs. We illustrate how a series of scientific images, cartoons, and prose are used by a patient to weave disparate-and objectively unrelated-concepts. The resulting prose is incoherent science.
Elvevåg
Brita
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Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD, USA. brita@elvevaag.net
Wynn
Rolf
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Covington
Michael A
MA
D000328:Adult; D003142:Communication; D003221:Confusion / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000150:complications*