Tangential speech or tangentiality is a communication disorder in which the train of thought of the speaker wanders and shows a lack of focus, never returning to the initial topic of the conversation.[1] It tends to occur in situations where a person is experiencing high anxiety, as a manifestation of the psychosis known as schizophrenia, in dementia or in states of delirium.[2] It is less severe than logorrhea and may be associated with the middle stage in dementia.[1] It is, however, more severe than circumstantial speech, in which the speaker wanders but eventually returns to the topic.[3]
Some adults with right hemisphere brain damage may exhibit behavior that includes tangential speech.[4] Those who exhibit these behaviors may also have related symptoms such as seemingly inappropriate or self-centered social responses, and a deterioration in pragmatic abilities (including appropriate eye contact as well as topic maintenance).[5]
^ abForensic Aspects of Communication Sciences and Disorders by Dennis C. Tanner 2003 ISBN 1-930056-31-1 page 289
^G. David Elkin (1999). Introduction to clinical psychiatry. McGraw-Hill Professional - 1999. ISBN 9780838543337. Retrieved 2012-01-17.
^Crash Course: Psychiatry by Julius Bourke, Matthew Castle, Alasdair D. Cameron 2008 ISBN 0-7234-3476-X page 255
^Introduction to Neurogenic Communication Disorders by Robert H. Brookshire 1997 ISBN 0-323-04531-6 page 393
^Perspectives on Treatment for Communication Deficits Associated With Right Hemisphere Brain Damage by Margaret Lehman Blake 2007 ISSN 1058-0360 page 333
Tangentialspeech or tangentiality is a communication disorder in which the train of thought of the speaker wanders and shows a lack of focus, never returning...
accurate communication. Circumstantial speech is more direct than tangentialspeech in which the speaker wanders and drifts and usually never returns...
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like flight of ideas can induce pressured speech, with some degrees of circumstantiality or tangentialspeech. It is also a direct or indirect symptom...
of the social context of conversations; and verbose, rambling and tangentialspeech. Right hemisphere brain damage is diagnosed by a medical professional...
articulation and ways that humans produce speech. Articulatory phoneticians explain how humans produce speech sounds via the interaction of different physiological...
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communication patterns are of clinical interest: poor prosody, tangential and circumstantial speech, and marked verbosity. Although inflection and intonation...
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association; switching to topics that are unrelated, called tangential thinking; incomprehensible speech, called word salad or incoherence. Disorganized motor...
between employees within and outside a company Circumstantial speech – Seemingly tangential discussion that returns to the point Evidence-based education –...
was based on. These stories occur in the DC Universe, but are generally tangential to the mainstream DC stories. The Endless are a family of seven anthropomorphic...
circumstantial speech, refers to a person being unable to answer a question without giving excessive, unnecessary detail. This differs from tangential thinking...
not include the full text of the latter two volumes, but removes the tangential travel sections which take place outside Scotland. "The Ring of Bright...
neurotypical people (though this is not universal), and may be "long-winded or tangential". These inattentive symptoms occur dually with what has been termed "hyperfocus"...
that other people harbor negative thoughts and views about them. Peculiar speech mannerisms and socially unexpected modes of dress are also characteristic...
Egypt in November 1866. Scores of persons were arrested, including many tangential associates of the conspirators and anyone having had even the slightest...
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