Natural language processing for mental health interventions: a systematic review and research framework

M Malgaroli, TD Hull, JM Zech, T Althoff - Translational Psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
Neuropsychiatric disorders pose a high societal cost, but their treatment is hindered by lack
of objective outcomes and fidelity metrics. AI technologies and specifically Natural …

[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 …

Natural Language Processing markers in first episode psychosis and people at clinical high-risk

SE Morgan, K Diederen, PE Vértes, SHY Ip… - Translational …, 2021 - nature.com
Recent work has suggested that disorganised speech might be a powerful predictor of later
psychotic illness in clinical high risk subjects. To that end, several automated measures to …

Speech markers to predict and prevent recurrent episodes of psychosis: A narrative overview and emerging opportunities

F Zaher, M Diallo, AM Achim, R Joober, MA Roy… - Schizophrenia …, 2024 - Elsevier
Preventing relapse in schizophrenia improves long-term health outcomes. Repeated
episodes of psychotic symptoms shape the trajectory of this illness and can be a detriment to …

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 …

Validation of natural language processing methods capturing semantic incoherence in the speech of patients with non-affective psychosis

SA Just, AL Bröcker, G Ryazanskaya, I Nenchev… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Impairments in speech production are a core symptom of non-affective
psychosis (NAP). While traditional clinical ratings of patients' speech involve a subjective …

Widespread cortical thinning, excessive glutamate and impaired linguistic functioning in schizophrenia: A cluster analytic approach

L Liang, AM Silva, P Jeon, SD Ford… - Frontiers in human …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Symptoms of schizophrenia are closely related to aberrant language
comprehension and production. Macroscopic brain changes seen in some patients with …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing dimensions of thought disorder with large language models: The tradeoff of accuracy and consistency

SL Pugh, C Chandler, AS Cohen, C Diaz-Asper… - Psychiatry …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods have shown promise for the
assessment of formal thought disorder, a hallmark feature of schizophrenia in which …

[HTML][HTML] Fully automated detection of formal thought disorder with Time-series Augmented Representations for Detection of Incoherent Speech (TARDIS)

W Xu, W Wang, J Portanova, A Chander… - Journal of biomedical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Formal thought disorder (ThD) is a clinical sign of schizophrenia amongst other serious
mental health conditions. ThD can be recognized by observing incoherent speech-speech in …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing coherence through linguistic connectives: Analysis of speech in patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders

H Corona-Hernández, JN de Boer, SG Brederoo… - Schizophrenia …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Incoherent speech is a core diagnostic symptom of schizophrenia-spectrum
disorders (SSD) that can be studied using semantic space models. Since linguistic …