Language and Psychosis: Tightening the Association

Eric J Tan; Iris E C Sommer; Lena Palaniyappan

doi:10.1093/schbul/sbac211

Language and Psychosis: Tightening the Association

Schizophr Bull. 2023 Mar 22;49(Suppl_2):S83-S85. doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbac211.

Authors

Eric J Tan^{1

2

3}, Iris E C Sommer⁴, Lena Palaniyappan^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Memory, Ageing and Cognition Centre, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore.
² Department of Pharmacology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
³ Centre for Mental Health and Brain Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
⁴ RijksUniversity Groningen (RUG), Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
⁵ Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
⁶ Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.

Abstract

This special issue of DISCOURSE in Psychosis focuses on the role of language in psychosis, including the relationships between formal thought disorder and conceptual disorganization, with speech and language markers and the neural mechanisms underlying these features in psychosis. It also covers the application of computational techniques in the study of language in psychosis, as well as the potential for using speech and language data for digital phenotyping in psychiatry.

Keywords: artificial intelligence; clinical trials; discourse; linguistics; phenomenology; psycholinguistics; psychopathology.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Humans
Language*
Psychotic Disorders*
Speech

Grants and funding

Fonds de recherche du Quebec-Santé