Using language processing and speech analysis for the identification of psychosis and other disorders

CM Corcoran, GA Cecchi - Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience …, 2020 - Elsevier
Increasingly, data-driven methods have been implemented to understand psychopathology.
Language is the main source of information in psychiatry and represents “big data” at the …

Linguistic findings in persons with schizophrenia—a review of the current literature

F Ehlen, C Montag, K Leopold, A Heinz - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Alterations of verbalized thought occur frequently in psychotic disorders. We
characterize linguistic findings in individuals with schizophrenia based on the current …

Trajectories through semantic spaces in schizophrenia and the relationship to ripple bursts

MM Nour, DC McNamee, Y Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Human cognition is underpinned by structured internal representations that encode
relationships between entities in the world (cognitive maps). Clinical features of …

[HTML][HTML] Quantified language connectedness in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders

AE Voppel, JN de Boer, SG Brederoo, HG Schnack… - Psychiatry …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Language abnormalities are a core symptom of schizophrenia-spectrum disorders
and could serve as a potential diagnostic marker. Natural language processing enables …

[HTML][HTML] Speech disturbances in schizophrenia: Assessing cross-linguistic generalizability of NLP automated measures of coherence

A Parola, JM Lin, A Simonsen, V Bliksted, Y Zhou… - Schizophrenia …, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction Language disorders–disorganized and incoherent speech in particular-are
distinctive features of schizophrenia. Natural language processing (NLP) offers automated …

Lower cohesion and altered first-person pronoun usage in the spoken life narratives of individuals with schizophrenia

NB Lundin, HR Cowan, DK Singh, AM Moe - Schizophrenia Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Usage of computational tools to quantify language disturbances among individuals with
psychosis is increasing, improving measurement efficiency and access to fine-grained …

Progressive changes in descriptive discourse in First Episode Schizophrenia: a longitudinal computational semantics study

MF Alonso-Sánchez, SD Ford, M MacKinley, A Silva… - Schizophrenia, 2022 - nature.com
Computational semantics, a branch of computational linguistics, involves automated
meaning analysis that relies on how words occur together in natural language. This offers a …

Detecting relapse in youth with psychotic disorders utilizing patient-generated and patient-contributed digital data from facebook

ML Birnbaum, SK Ernala, AF Rizvi, E Arenare… - NPJ …, 2019 - nature.com
Although most patients who experience a first-episode of psychosis achieve remission of
positive psychotic symptoms, relapse is common. Existing relapse evaluation strategies are …

Comprehensive verbal fluency features predict executive function performance

J Amunts, JA Camilleri, SB Eickhoff, KR Patil, S Heim… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Semantic verbal fluency (sVF) tasks are commonly used in clinical diagnostic batteries as
well as in a research context. When performing sVF tasks to assess executive functions …

Identifying signals associated with psychiatric illness utilizing language and images posted to Facebook

ML Birnbaum, R Norel, A Van Meter, AF Ali… - npj …, 2020 - nature.com
Prior research has identified associations between social media activity and psychiatric
diagnoses; however, diagnoses are rarely clinically confirmed. Toward the goal of applying …