Both the ability to speak and to infer complex linguistic messages from sounds have been
claimed as uniquely human phenomena. In schizophrenia, formal thought disorder (FTD) …

Background Language disturbances are a core feature of schizophrenia, often studied as a
formal thought disorder. The neurobiology of language in schizophrenia has been …

We hypothesize that linguistic (dis-) organization in the schizophrenic brain plays a more
central role in the pathogenesis of this disease than commonly supposed. Against the …

Patients with schizophrenia suffer from impairments on all levels of speech and language,
ranging from the most simple auditory perceptual to complex pragmatic processing …

Auditory hallucinations and formal thought disorders are major diagnostic features of
schizophrenia. From a neurobiological point of view, they are of particular interest since both …

I read with great interest the publication recently in this journal by Du et al. 1, examining
language dysconnectivity early in the illness course of schizophrenia and relating its …

Language and thought dysfunction are central to the schizophrenia syndrome. They are
evident in the major symptoms of psychosis itself, particularly as disorganized language …

Thought disorder is a fundamental symptom of schizophrenia, observable as irregularities in
speech. It has been associated with functional and structural abnormalities in brain regions …

Although the pathophysiology of auditory verbal hallucinations remains uncertain, the inner
speech model remains a prominent theory. A systematic review and meta-analyses of both …

Deficits in language production and comprehension are characteristic of schizophrenia. To
date, it remains unclear whether these deficits arise from dysfunctional linguistic knowledge …