Measuring disorganized speech in schizophrenia: automated analysis explains variance in cognitive deficits beyond clinician-rated scales | Zendy

Kyle S. Minor | Zendy; Jon Willits | Zendy; Matthew P. Marggraf | Zendy; Michael N. Jones | Zendy; Paul H. Lysaker | Zendy

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Measuring disorganized speech in schizophrenia: automated analysis explains variance in cognitive deficits beyond clinician-rated scales

Author(s) -

Kyle S. Minor,

Jon Willits,

Matthew P. Marggraf,

Michael N. Jones,

Paul H. Lysaker

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

psychological medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.857

H-Index - 209

eISSN - 1469-8978

pISSN - 0033-2917

DOI - 10.1017/s0033291718001046

Subject(s) - neurocognitive , metacognition , psychology , cognition , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , social cognition , cognitive psychology , variance (accounting) , developmental psychology , psychiatry , accounting , business

Conveying information cohesively is an essential element of communication that is disrupted in schizophrenia. These disruptions are typically expressed through disorganized symptoms, which have been linked to neurocognitive, social cognitive, and metacognitive deficits. Automated analysis can objectively assess disorganization within sentences, between sentences, and across paragraphs by comparing explicit communication to a large text corpus.

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