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Aphasic language in schizophrenia, or schizophrenic language in aphasia? Neuropsychological and neurolinguistics evidences

Abstract:

In schizophrenia as well as Wernicke aphasia, is showed a disorganized oral discourse, with paraphasias and neologisms. In aphasia, these symptoms have linguistic nature; in schizophrenia don't have conclusive elements. What cognitive mechanism produces the disorganized oral discourse in both types of patients? The present study was implemented for to obtain empirical evidences about subjacent cognitive mechanisms to verbal alterations in schizophrenia. Participated 54 patients: 27 aphasics and 27 schizophrenics. Both groups executed test for neurolinguistic and semantic assessment. The data was treated with statistical descriptive test and with t of Student. The results indicate that schizophrenic patients, contrasting with aphasics, execute correctly neurolinguistic test, but fail in semantic test. They pointed the non-linguistic etiology of verbal alteration in schizophrenia.