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  • Previous studies indicate that deficits in naming and syntax in formal thought disorder may be linked to overall cognitive decline.
  • The case of FM, a patient with schizophrenia and formal thought disorder, highlights significant impairments in both receptive and expressive grammar compared to his cognitive abilities.
  • Despite having intact grammatical judgment, FM struggles with sentence comprehension especially when context doesn't guide understanding, suggesting a complex relationship between syntax and semantics in language processing.

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Previous studies have suggested that naming and syntactic deficits in formal thought disorder may be related to global cognitive decline. This article reports the case of a patient, FM, with formal thought disorder schizophrenia who presents disproportionate deficits in receptive and expressive grammar with respect to his intellectual level of functioning. Syntactic and morphologic components of expressive grammar appeared equally impaired. Deficits in language comprehension were observed independently from working memory limitations. FM showed preserved grammaticality judgment, but defective sentence comprehension where semantic context does not provide heuristics for assigning thematic roles, but syntactic knowledge is essential. These atypical results are discussed within a neurodevelopmental aetiological model of formal thought disorder.

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