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Record 1 2018-10-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
DEF

Speech or thinking that is essentially incomprehensible to others because words or phrases are joined together without a logical or meaningful connection [within clauses].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
  • Psychologie cognitive
  • Psychologie clinique
DEF

Discours ou pensée qui est, pour l'essentiel, incompréhensible pour autrui en raison d'un manque de lien logique compréhensible entre les mots ou les [expressions au sein des phrases].

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-11-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychoses
  • Clinical Psychology
CONT

The essential feature of brief psychotic disorder is a disturbance that involves the sudden onset of at least one of the following positive psychotic symptoms : delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech(e. g. frequent derailment or incoherence), or grossly abnormal psychomotor behavior including catatonia... An episode of the disturbance lasts at least 1 day but less than 1 month, and the individual eventually has full return to the premorbid level of functioning.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychoses
  • Psychologie clinique
CONT

La caractéristique essentielle d'un trouble psychotique bref est la survenue brutale d'au moins un des symptômes psychotiques positifs de la liste suivante : idées délirantes, hallucinations, discours désorganisé (p. ex. déraillements fréquents ou incohérence), ou comportement grossièrement désorganisé, incluant la catatonie [...] Un épisode de la perturbation dure au moins un jour, mais moins d'un mois avec finalement un retour complet au niveau de fonctionnement prémorbide.

Spanish

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Record 3 2016-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Human Behaviour
  • Mental Disorders
CONT

Textbooks of psychiatry and review articles claim that neuroleptics have specific antipsychotic effect, especially on the so-called positive symptoms of schizophrenia, such as hallucinations and delusions, marked incoherence, and repeatedly bizarre or disorganized behaviour.

Key term(s)
  • abnormal behaviour
  • aberrant behaviour

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement humain
  • Troubles mentaux

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Comportamiento humano
  • Trastornos mentales
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Record 4 2006-01-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mental Disorders
DEF

A disturbance in the form of thought as distinguished from the content of thought.

OBS

The boundaries of the concept are not clear, and there is no consensus as to which disturbances in speech or thought are included in the concept. For this reason, "formal thought disorder" is not used as a specific descriptive term in DSM-lll-R. See loosening of associations, incoherence, poverty of content of speech, neologisms, perseveration, blocking, echolalia, clanging.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Troubles mentaux
DEF

Perturbation du cours de la pensée que l'on distingue ici du contenu de la pensée.

OBS

Les limites de ce concept sont incertaines et il n'existe pas de consensus sur la nature exacte des troubles du langage ou de la pensée à y inclure. C'est pourquoi le « trouble du cours de la pensée » n'est pas utilisé comme terme descriptif spécifique dans le DSM-III-R. Voir : relâchement des associations, incohérence, pauvreté du contenu du discours, néologismes, persévération, blocage, écholalie, associations par assonances.

Spanish

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Record 5 2001-11-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mental Disorders
DEF

"confusion" :incoherence of thought causing abnormal behavior.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Troubles mentaux
DEF

Syndrome aigu ou subaigu [...] caractérisé par la baisse de la vigilance (hébétude, obnubilation ou torpeur), une désorientation temporo-spatiale, une amnésie antérograde, une anxiété et parfois des troubles graves du comportement (agitation, panique, violence).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Trastornos mentales
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Record 6 2000-07-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Manias
CONT

The term, mania... should, strictly, be reserved for the form characterized by mental exaltation. In simple mania the intellectual part of the cerebral function is in a state of over-activity... In the more pronounced form of acute mania, the motor functions of the brain are also affected; there is not only complete incoherence of speech, but there is intense restlessness and complete disappearance of will power...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Manies
OBS

Forme grave de manie.

Spanish

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Record 7 1996-07-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
OBS

Canadian Centre for Management Development publications on public management. Authors: B. Guy Peters and Donald J. Savoie.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
OBS

Publications du Centre canadien de gestion en gestion publique. Auteurs : B. Guy Peters et Donald J. Savoie.

Spanish

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Record 8 1990-08-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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Record 9 1990-06-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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