- Schizophasia
SignSymptom infobox
Name = Other speech disturbance
ICD10 = R47.8
ICD9 = ICD9|784.5In the
mental health field, schizophasia, commonly referred to as word salad (see "word salad " for other meanings), is used to describe the symptom of confused, and often repetitious, language that is symptomatic of variousmental illness es. It is usually associated with a manic presentation and other symptoms of serious mental illnesses, such as psychoses, includingschizophrenia . It describes the apparently confused usage ofword s with no apparent meaning or relationship attached to them. In this context, it is considered to be a symptom of aformal thought disorder . In some cases schizophasia can be a sign of asymptomatic schizophrenia; e.g. the question "Why do people believe inGod ?" could elicit a response consisting of a series of words commonly associated with religion orprayer but strung together with no regard to language rules.Schizophasia should be contrasted with another symptom of cognitive disruption and
cognitive slippage involving certain idiosyncratic arrangements of words. With this symptom, the language may or may not be grammatically correct depending on the severity of the disease and the particular mechanisms which have been impacted by the disease. Thus, the phrase "Satan , oscillate my metallic sonatas" and the phrase "Blue does runs shaky lovely very" can be authentic schizophasias (one grammatically correct, the other not) if they are produced as a result of mental disease or defect. In contrast, intentionally producing nonsense, as in the contrivedpalindrome "Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas" is not considered schizophasia. Schizophasia refers to a defect in processing and organizing language, as opposed to the ability to create a nonsense word which happens to conform to a very specific set of rules.The American diagnostic codes, from the "
DSM-IV ", do not specifically code for this disorder although they include it as a symptom under the diagnosis of schizophrenia. [cite book| title=Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders | edition=4th edition| year=1994]The episode "" from the American TV series "
Boston Legal " depicts a character with this condition.ee also
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Cluttering
*Schizophrenia
*Dysarthria
*Dysphasia
*Slurred speech References
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