[HTML][HTML] Anomalies in language as a biomarker for schizophrenia

JN De Boer, SG Brederoo, AE Voppel… - Current opinion in …, 2020‏ - journals.lww.com
Language disturbances are a key feature of schizophrenia. Although in its early stages, the
emerging field of research focused on computational linguistics suggests an important role …

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 …

[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 …

Thought disorder measured as random speech structure classifies negative symptoms and schizophrenia diagnosis 6 months in advance

NB Mota, M Copelli, S Ribeiro - npj Schizophrenia, 2017‏ - nature.com
In chronic psychotic patients, word graph analysis shows potential as complementary
psychiatric assessment. This analysis relies mostly on connectedness, a structural feature 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 …

Dreaming during the Covid-19 pandemic: Computational assessment of dream reports reveals mental suffering related to fear of contagion

NB Mota, J Weissheimer, M Ribeiro, M De Paiva… - PloS one, 2020‏ - journals.plos.org
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 …

Acoustic speech markers for schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: a diagnostic and symptom-recognition tool

JN De Boer, AE Voppel, SG Brederoo… - Psychological …, 2023‏ - cambridge.org
Background Clinicians routinely use impressions of speech as an element of mental status
examination. In schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, descriptions of speech are used to …

Computational analysis of linguistic features in speech samples of first-episode bipolar disorder and psychosis

B Arslan, E Kizilay, B Verim, C Demirlek… - Journal of Affective …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Background In recent years, automated analyses using novel NLP methods have been used
to investigate language abnormalities in schizophrenia. In contrast, only a few studies used …

Comparative study of LSA vs Word2vec embeddings in small corpora: a case study in dreams database

E Altszyler, M Sigman, S Ribeiro, DF Slezak - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2016‏ - arxiv.org
Word embeddings have been extensively studied in large text datasets. However, only a few
studies analyze semantic representations of small corpora, particularly relevant in single …

Understanding language abnormalities and associated clinical markers in psychosis: the promise of computational methods

K Hitczenko, VA Mittal, M Goldrick - Schizophrenia bulletin, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
The language and speech of individuals with psychosis reflect their impairments in cognition
and motor processes. These language disturbances can be used to identify individuals with …