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BODY FUNCTIONS

CHAPTER 1
MENTAL FUNCTIONS
specific mental functions
b160 Thought functions
Specific mental functions related to the ideational component of the mind.

Inclusion
functions of pace, form, control and content of thought; goal-directed thought functions, non-goal directed thought functions; logical thought functions, such as pressure of thought, flight of ideas, thought block, incoherence of thought, tangentiality, circumstantiality, delusions, obsessions and compulsions

exclusion
intellectual functions (b117); memory functions (b144); psychomotor functions (b147); perceptual functions (b156); higher-level cognitive functions (b164); mental functions of language (b167); calculation functions (b172)



b1600 b1601 b1602 b1603 b1608 b1609
Pace of thought Form of thought Content of thought Control of thought Thought functions, other specified Thought functions, unspecified
Mental functions that govern speed of the thinking process. Mental functions that organize the thinking process as to its coherence and logic.

inclusion
impairments of ideational perseveration, tangentiality and circumstantiality
Mental functions consisting of the ideas that are present in the thinking process and what is being conceptualized.

inclusion
impairments of delusions, overvalued ideas and somatization
Mental functions that provide volitional control of thinking and are recognized as such by the person.

inclusion
impairments of rumination, obsession, thought broadcast and thought insertion


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