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Emotionally-loaded narrative increases dyslogia in schizophrenics

We tested the degree of dyslogia in the narrative of ten schizophrenic non-medicated outpatients while they narrated emotionally-loaded or neutral facts. The "emotional narratives" were much more dyslogic than the "neutral narratives". In order to explain these facts we evoke: 1. A fronto-temporo-limbic connection dysfunction would disturb an adequate cognitive treatement of emotions that would be, in this way, highly disruptive over logical processes. 2. A working memory/supervisory attentional system dysfunction that would produce both a loss of the normal conections among the fragments of speech and a lack of global strategical planning of the thought.

schizophrenia; thought disorders; neuropsychology; psychopathology; dyslogia


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