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Some adults with right hemisphere brain damage may exhibit behavior that includes tangential speech. [4] Those who exhibit these behaviors may also have related symptoms such as seemingly inappropriate or self-centered social responses, and a deterioration in pragmatic abilities (including appropriate eye contact as well as topic maintenance). [5]
Psychosis is considered to be among the top 10 causes of social disability among adult men and women in developed countries. [177] The traditional, negative narrative around disability has been shown to adversely influence employment and education for people experiencing psychosis. [178]
Thought broadcasting is most commonly found among people who have a psychotic disorder, specifically schizophrenia. Thought broadcasting is considered a severe delusion and it induces multiple complications, from lack of insight to social isolation. The delusion normally occurs along with other symptoms. Thought broadcasting is considered rare.
Psychosis that results from a general medical condition or substance is termed secondary psychosis. [10] Psychotic symptoms may be present in several other conditions, including bipolar disorder, [11] borderline personality disorder, [12] substance intoxication, substance-induced psychosis, and a number of drug withdrawal syndromes.
A thought disorder (TD) is a disturbance in cognition which affects language, thought and communication. [1] [2] Psychiatric and psychological glossaries in 2015 and 2017 identified thought disorders as encompassing poverty of ideas, paralogia (a reasoning disorder characterized by expression of illogical or delusional thoughts), word salad, and delusions—all disturbances of thought content ...
The mediating factors of violent acts, however, are most consistently found to be mainly socio-demographic and socio-economic factors such as being young, male, of lower socioeconomic status and, in particular, substance use (including alcohol use) to which some people may be particularly vulnerable. [74] [236] [240] [241]
Alcohol-related psychosis arises from distortions to neuronal membranes, gene expression, and thiamine deficiency in some cases. There is evidence that excessive alcohol use via a kindling mechanism can occasionally cause the development of chronic substance-induced psychosis [142] that may transition to schizophrenia in predisposed individuals ...
These attributions, which are commonly found in patients with ASD, [9] partially account for why stilted speech has been considered a diagnostic criterion for the disorder. [8] Stilted speech, along with atypical intonation, semantic drift, terseness, and perseveration, are all known deficits with adolescents on the autistic spectrum. [ 10 ]