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cognitive derailment

cognitive derailment

the often abrupt shifting of thoughts or associations so that they do not follow one another in a logical sequence. Cognitive derailment is a symptom of schizophrenia; the term is essentially equivalent to thought derailment. See also cognitive slippage.

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