Editing Clanging (section)

== Biological factors ==
Understanding of such language impairments and FTDs take a biological approach.

Candidate genes for such vulnerability of schizophrenia are the [[FOXP2]] (which is linked to a familial language disorder and autism) and dysbindin 1 genes43,44.<ref name="Radanovic Sousa Valiengo et al 2012"/> This distal explanation not only does not explain clanging specifically, but also fails to include other environmental influences on the development of schizophrenia. Moreover, if a person does develop schizophrenia, it does not guarantee they have the symptom of clanging.

Sass and Pienkos 2013 suggest that a more nuanced understanding of structural (neural changes) patterns that occur in a sufferer's brain could be important in understanding the disorder.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sass |first1=Louis |last2=Pienkos |first2=Elizabeth |title=Beyond words: linguistic experience in melancholia, mania, and schizophrenia |journal=Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences |date=September 2015 |volume=14 |issue=3 |pages=475–495 |doi=10.1007/s11097-013-9340-0 |s2cid=254947008 }}</ref> However, more research is required into not only understanding the causes of such symptoms, but how it works.