The Schizophrenia Bulletin DISCOURSEgroup special issue is out, with lots of #language & #Psychiatry papers, including one by yours truly! doi.org/10.1093/schbul…

UPDATE: The next #discourseinpsychosis seminar happens today Friday 14th April, with Silvia Ciampelli and Hugo Corona Hernandez on syntactic network analysis and assessing coherence through linguistic connectives in SZ speech. OPEN TO ALL! 9am ET/2pm CET/11pm AEST.

Two new PhD positions available at the umcg/rug, on the intersection of NLP, AI and psychiatry! werkenbijumcg.nl/-/vacatures/ph… & werkenbijumcg.nl/-/vacatures/ph…

The next #discourseinpsychosis seminar will be on Friday 5th May, with Rohit Voleti on Language Analytics for Assessment of Mental Health Status and Functional Competency. OPEN TO ALL! 9am ET/3pm CET/11pm AEST. See you there!

🚨 New paper on applications of NLG to the study of psychosis, with Lena K. Palaniyappan, Alban Voppel and David Benrimoh, now out in Biological Psychiatry: CCNI 👇

Happy to be at the Toronto DISCOURSEgroup meeting, about speech and psychosis with chairs Lena K. Palaniyappan and Sunny Tang and many more amazing researchers!

Early morning DISCOURSEgroup huddle together

Great talk by Bodyl Brand on Sex Influences on Antipsychotic Side Effects and Efficacy #SIRS2023

Our lab is recruiting a new postdoc who will work on applying NLP to speech data acquired using a joint task (schizophrenia and controls).

Our new paper in Psychiatry Research Journal shows that using Automatic Speech Recognition does not reduce classification accuracy based on a semantic NLP model in #Schizophrenia Thanks to Alban Voppel, Prof.Iris Sommer and twitter-free colleagues! Full link ➡️ doi.org/10.1016/j.psyc…

Janna de Boer, phD cum laude and mum with passion. Looking forward to work together the next years. Well done woman!

Can speech patterns help us foresee an imminent relapse of psychosis? Our review of this idea, challenges and opportunities: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Thanks to FRQ - secteur Santé IRSC SPOR Douglas Research Centre Fondation Douglas | Douglas Foundation + Alban Voppel Amelie Achim CRISP Douglas Shalini Lal, PhD (she/her) DISCOURSEgroup

Join us for the 2nd DISCOURSEgroup satellite meeting! We will discuss #language in #psychosis, #pragmatics, #computationalmodels, and much more. Mon 8th of April, from 9AM-6.30PM, organized by Sam Sum and Ospedale San Raffaele Zoom link 👉iusspavia.zoom.us/my/br.saladelc…

Looking forward to presenting alongside Dr. Sreeraj, Alban Voppel Frederike Stein Lena K. Palaniyappan and Prof. Dr. Tilo Kircher!

Interesting conversations on Formal Thought Disorder going on with ⁦Alban Voppel⁩ ⁦Sunny Tang⁩ ⁦Frederike Stein⁩ ⁦Lena K. Palaniyappan⁩ @TiloKircher ⁦Schizophrenia International Research Society⁩

From the left and from the right: Pre-meeting dinner of the DISCOURSEgroup group in Pavia. Lots of interesting discussions about language in psychosis and lots of expectations for tomorrow's event! Program neplab.it/wp-content/upl… Zoom iusspavia.zoom.us/my/br.saladelc… #discourseday2024

On of the nicest things of science is to share results with international colleagues and become inspired by their findings. Best occasion for my team is Schizophrenia International Research Society #sirs2024 youtu.be/nZUKmIDVXNY?si… via YouTube

#discourseday2024 underway at the beautiful IUSS facilities in Pavia. Amazing talks from DISCOURSEgroup colleagues from all over the world. Making strides to understand, measure and improve speech, language and communication in psychosis.

This was such a great day with inspiring talks and new ideas to work on 🧠🗣️Thank you for having us in beautiful #pavia #Italia DISCOURSEgroup

Happy to see this work published with Lena K. Palaniyappan - Negative psychosis symptoms are detectable via speech spectrograms & CNNs. nature.com/articles/s4427… thanks to our support (for Gleb Melshin with Mach-Gaensslen Foundation of Canada & for me BBRFoundation) using DISCOURSEgroup data.