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 …

Patients with schizophrenia often display unusual language impairments. This is a wide
ranging critical review of the literature on language in schizophrenia since the 19th century …

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 …

The language capacity of modern humans is thought by some to be clearly distinct from that
of nonhuman primates (Bickerton 1990). Crow (1997, 1998 a) has proposed that a …

How is it that many schizophrenics identify certain instances of verbal imagery as
hallucinatory? Most investigators have assumed that alterations in sensory features of …

We hypothesize that linguistic (dis-) organization in the schizophrenic brain plays a more
central role in the pathogenesis of this disease than commonly supposed. Against the …

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the pragmatic abilities of patients with
schizophrenia in a variety of pragmatic phenomena expressed through different …

Previous research has suggested that complexity of speech, speech rate, use of emotion
words, and use of pronouns are all potential indicators of important clinical components of …

Background. Although poor language test performance has been documented in
schizophrenia, its relationship to formal thought disorder remains unclear. Method. Forty …

Objective: Progress in the science of data analysis and computer technology has led to the
development of advanced methods for investigating structure discourse in the psychiatric …