Aysegul Ozcan Vural

• Linguistics
• Dokuz Eylül University

Aim: This study was conducted to evaluate the cognitive insight, social functionality, and coping attitudes of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia being followed-up in a Community Mental Health Center (CMHC). Design and methods: The population of this descriptive and relationship-seeking study comprised 170 schizophrenia patients followed-up i...

Language impairment is one of the hallmarks of schizophrenia. The aim of this study is to compare pragmatic skills between the patients with schizophrenia and healthy control groups within the framework of topic maintenance in verbal discourse. Fifty patients with schizophrenia and fifty healthy control subjects matched for age, sex and education l...

Objective. Language disorder is one of the most significant symptom domains that characterizes Schizophrenia Disorder. The aim of the present study carried out considering language deviations is to investigate and compare the schizophrenic patients’ and control group’s speech in terms of sentence structure. Materials and Methods. The sample of th...

Language disorder is one of the most significant symptom domains which characterize Schizophrenia Disorder. The aim of the present study considering these language problems is to find out the number of the affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences on schizophrenia patients’ spontaneous speech and reveal whether their depression, doubts and...

Since the first descriptions of schizophrenia, language disturbances have been referred to as formal thought disorder (Boer et. al, 2020). Within this context in this study we analyzed sentential negation in the speech of the patients with schizophrenia to find out whether psychopathology and thought disorders of the patients affect the language us...

Objective. Schizophrenia’s first characteristics invokes the notion of disordered thought and language. Accordingly one of several diagnostic characteristics of schizophrenia is an impairment of verbal communication. To determine the detailed nature of language impairments taking into consideration these problems the aim of the present study was to...

Schizophrenia is a devastating mental disorder that affects thought, language and communication. Considering the language disorders, the aim of this study is to examine the average sentence length of patients with Schizophrenia and compare the results with a control group by using four different language tests. Fifty patients with schizophrenia dia...

Language disorder is one of the most significant symptom domains which characterize Schizophrenia Disorder. The aim of the present study which has been carried out by taking into consideration these language problems is to investigate and compare the schizophrenic patients’ and control group’s speech in terms of simple sentence structure. Fifty pat...

Patients with schizophrenia often display unusual language impairments and these abnormalities in language are among the most extreme and obvious symptoms in Schizophrenia Disorder. In this context, this research attempts to analyze and compare the schizophrenic patients’ and control group’s speech in terms of complex sentence structures. Fifty pat...