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 …

Computational psychiatry

XJ Wang, JH Krystal - Neuron, 2014 - cell.com
Psychiatric disorders such as autism and schizophrenia, arise from abnormalities in brain
systems that underlie cognitive, emotional, and social functions. The brain is enormously …

Prediction of psychosis across protocols and risk cohorts using automated language analysis

CM Corcoran, F Carrillo, D Fernández‐Slezak… - World …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Language and speech are the primary source of data for psychiatrists to diagnose and treat
mental disorders. In psychosis, the very structure of language can be disturbed, including …

Automated analysis of free speech predicts psychosis onset in high-risk youths

G Bedi, F Carrillo, GA Cecchi, DF Slezak, M Sigman… - npj …, 2015 - nature.com
AIMS: In this proof-of-principle study, our aim was to test automated speech analyses
combined with Machine Learning to predict later psychosis onset in youths at clinical high …

To BERT or not to BERT: comparing speech and language-based approaches for Alzheimer's disease detection

A Balagopalan, B Eyre, F Rudzicz… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Research related to automatically detecting Alzheimer's disease (AD) is important, given the
high prevalence of AD and the high cost of traditional methods. Since AD significantly affects …

Natural language processing methods are sensitive to sub-clinical linguistic differences in schizophrenia spectrum disorders

SX Tang, R Kriz, S Cho, SJ Park, J Harowitz, RE Gur… - npj …, 2021 - nature.com
Computerized natural language processing (NLP) allows for objective and sensitive
detection of speech disturbance, a hallmark of schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD). We …

Language as a biomarker for psychosis: a natural language processing approach

CM Corcoran, VA Mittal, CE Bearden, RE Gur… - Schizophrenia …, 2020 - Elsevier
Human ratings of conceptual disorganization, poverty of content, referential cohesion and
illogical thinking have been shown to predict psychosis onset in prospective clinical high risk …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of speech-based digital biomarkers: review and recommendations

J Robin, JE Harrison, LD Kaufman, F Rudzicz… - Digital …, 2020 - karger.com
Speech represents a promising novel biomarker by providing a window into brain health, as
shown by its disruption in various neurological and psychiatric diseases. As with many novel …

Comparing pre-trained and feature-based models for prediction of Alzheimer's disease based on speech

A Balagopalan, B Eyre, J Robin, F Rudzicz… - Frontiers in aging …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: Research related to the automatic detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is
important, given the high prevalence of AD and the high cost of traditional diagnostic …

A machine learning approach to predicting psychosis using semantic density and latent content analysis

N Rezaii, E Walker, P Wolff - NPJ schizophrenia, 2019 - nature.com
Subtle features in people's everyday language may harbor the signs of future mental illness.
Machine learning offers an approach for the rapid and accurate extraction of these signs …