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A comparative study of thought disorder in acute and chronic schizophrenia
P K Mazumdar1, S K Chaturvedi, P S Gopinath
1Department of Psychiatry, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian Kelantan.
Psychopathology
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
A differential phenomenological study of acute and chronic schizophrenia is scanty. Thought disorder was assessed in 22 acute and 23 chronic schizophrenics. The scale for the assessment of thought, language and communication was used. Poverty of speech was significantly more frequent in acute schizophrenia. Positive formal thought disorder was unusually found to be severer in chronic schizophrenia. No other significant difference was found. From the perspective of thought disorder, acute and chronic forms of schizophrenia seem to be in a continuum with minimal difference.