Natural language processing and psychosis: on the need for comprehensive psychometric evaluation

AS Cohen, Z Rodriguez, KK Warren… - Schizophrenia …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Hypothesis Despite decades of “proof of concept” findings
supporting the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in psychosis research, clinical …

Machine learning and non-affective psychosis: identification, differential diagnosis, and treatment

M Ferrara, G Franchini, M Funaro, M Cutroni… - Current Psychiatry …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review This review will cover the most relevant findings on the use of
machine learning (ML) techniques in the field of non-affective psychosis, by summarizing the …

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 …

Natural language processing: from bedside to everywhere

E Aramaki, S Wakamiya, S Yada… - Yearbook of medical …, 2022 - thieme-connect.com
Objectives: Owing to the rapid progress of natural language processing (NLP), the role of
NLP in the medical field has radically gained considerable attention from both NLP and …

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 …

Syntactic complexity of spoken language in the diagnosis of schizophrenia: A probabilistic Bayes network model

AM Silva, R Limongi, M MacKinley, SD Ford… - Schizophrenia …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the clinical linguistics of schizophrenia, syntactic complexity has received much attention.
In this study, we address whether syntactic complexity deteriorates within the six months …

Baseline cortical thickness reductions in clinical high risk for psychosis: brain regions associated with conversion to psychosis versus non-conversion as assessed at …

EC Del Re, WS Stone, S Bouix, J Seitz… - Schizophrenia …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Objective To assess cortical thickness (CT) and surface area (SA) of frontal, temporal, and
parietal brain regions in a large clinical high risk for psychosis (CHR) sample, and to identify …

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 …

Modeling incoherent discourse in non-affective psychosis

SA Just, E Haegert, N Kořánová, AL Bröcker… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Background Computational linguistic methodology allows quantification of speech
abnormalities in non-affective psychosis. For this patient group, incoherent speech has long …

Active inference, epistemic value, and uncertainty in conceptual disorganization in first-episode schizophrenia

R Limongi, AM Silva, M Mackinley, SD Ford… - Schizophrenia …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Hypothesis Active inference has become an influential concept in
psychopathology. We apply active inference to investigate conceptual disorganization in first …