primary thought disorder

primary thought disorder

a disturbance of cognition, observed primarily in schizophrenia, characterized by incoherent and irrelevant intellectual functions and peculiar language patterns (including bizarre syntax, neologisms, and word salad). See schizophrenic thinking.

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