paraphasic

“Spontaneous speech is empty, circumlocutory, and paraphasic.”

Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry

“From a neuropsychiatrie viewpoint, the pattern for schizophrenia is an illness that develops in a young adult without known CNS coarse disease, and is characterized by motor and receptive aprosodia; frontal lobe and cerebellar motor dysregulation; perceptual disturbances; and fluent, paraphasic speech with intact repetition.”

Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry

“Although conduction aphasies have reasonably intact comprehension, they have difficulty with word finding and make phonemic paraphasic errors.”

Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry

“Speech is dysarthric and paraphasic, comprehension is poor, and repetition ability is variable.”

Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry

“Reading aloud, writing, and naming are impaired, and utterances can be paraphasic.”

Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry

“Nineteenth-and early twentieth-century writers used the term to characterize abnormalities of language production (e.g., paraphasic speech, speech without content, neologisms), rather than to define aberrant concept formation and abstraction (e.g., unable to recognize the basic category of such objects as apples and pears), which also are observed in schizophrenics.”

Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry

“Language output is fluent but is highly paraphasic, sometimes with string of neologisms and circumlocutions.”

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