Abstract Language has been used as a privileged window to investigate mental processes.
More recently, descriptions of psychopathological symptoms have been analyzed with the …

Dreams have long captivated human curiosity, but empirical research in this area has faced
significant methodological challenges. Recent interdisciplinary advances have now opened …

In chronic psychotic patients, word graph analysis shows potential as complementary
psychiatric assessment. This analysis relies mostly on connectedness, a structural feature of …

The current global threat brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic has led to widespread social
isolation, posing new challenges in dealing with metal suffering related to social distancing …

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 …

Background Formal thought disorder is a cardinal feature of psychotic disorders, and is also
evident in subtle forms before psychosis onset in individuals at clinical high-risk for …

Background: A longstanding notion in the concept of psychosis is the prominence of
loosened associative links in thought processes. Assessment of such subtle aspects of …

Dream reports collected after rapid eye movement sleep (REM) awakenings are, on
average, longer, more vivid, bizarre, emotional and story-like compared to those collected …

Research consistently finds that language and theory of mind are interrelated. The content
and qualities of language that specifically predict theory of mind remain under investigation …

Psychiatrists rely on language and speech behavior as one of the main clues in psychiatric
diagnosis. Descriptive psychopathology and phenomenology form the basis of a common …