1. Nursing care of patients with needs interferences related to thought disorders

2. 1.Definition of thought disorders
2. Types of thought disorders
3. Symptoms of thought disorders
4. Causes/associated factors

3. Definition:
is a term used to describe a pattern of disordered language use that is presumed to reflect disordered thinking. It is usually considered a symptom of psychotic mental illness although occasionally appears in other conditions. It is also known as knight's move thinking referring to the nonlinear way a knight moves in chess.

4. Types of thought disorders
I. DISORDERS OF STREAM OF THOUGHT
II. Disorders OF FORM OF Thought
3.  Perseveration

5. Symptoms of thought disorders:
I. DISORDERS OF STREAM OF THOUGHT
- Pressure of thought: subjective experience and objective
- Poverty of thought.
- Thought blocking:

6. Symptoms of thought disorders:
II. Disorders OF FORM OF Thought
1. Flight of Ideas : 1.clang association;
2. rhyming,3. punning, 4. responding to distracting cues in the environment.

7. Symptoms of thought disorders:
2. Loosening of associations - a loss of the normal structure of thinking.
- Knight's move (derailment)
- word salad
- verbigeration (verbal stereotypy)
- alogia (illogicality)
- agrammatism
- fusion (bringing together heterogeneous elements)
- neologisms
- circumstantiality
- overinclusiveness

8. Causes/associated factors
delirium due to medical conditions (such as encephalitis, inflammation of the brain)
Alzheimer's disease
cancer
endocrine disorders
kidney failure
closed head injuries

9. Causes/associated factors
other medical conditions
sleep deprivation
intoxication or long-term substance abuse
steroid overuse or toxicity
poisoning from substances such as lead, mercury, aluminum or arsenic
electrolyte imbalance