30-year-old nellie has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. her selective attention is deficient, she is unable to ignore irrelevant stimuli, and she often gives her undivided attention to minute stimuli (e. g., a spotlight shining in a window. this type of attention problem is thought to contribute to:

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Thirty-year-old Nellie has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. her selective attention is deficient, she is unable to ignore irrelevant stimuli, and she often gives her undivided attention to minute stimuli (e.g., a spotlight shining in a window. this type of attention problem is thought to contribute to disorganized thoughts.

Disorganized thinking can be an early symptom of schizophrenia, causing disjointed thoughts and incoherence. The patient can be easily distracted by anything. It can often derail from the conversation and express incoherent ideas. In another stage of disorganized thoughts, the patient starts to have auditory hallucinations, such as hearing noises and voices that in reality do not exist.