Positive symptoms correlated with more negative sentiment and longer utterances, whereas negative symptoms aligned with ...

Using artificial intelligence (AI) to process natural language, a research group evaluated the characteristics of speech among patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). AI analysis of their data ...

If you’re like most people, you probably rely on filler words like “um” and “uh” when speaking, whether you’re presenting at work or talking to old friends over coffee. Use of filler words can be very ...

Researchers are increasingly finding that subtle shifts in everyday conversation can flag trouble in the brain long before classic memory problems appear. Instead of relying only on paper-and-pencil ...

Language disturbances in mental disorders occur across diagnostic categories, including affective disorders such as Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and Bipolar Disorder (BD), as well as psychotic ...

Trying to figure out whether someone has Alzheimer's disease usually involves a battery of assessments—interviews, brain imaging, blood and cerebrospinal fluid tests. But, by then, it's probably ...

Patients with first-episode psychosis (FEP) show altered speech patterns and content that could pinpoint symptom severity — and help predict future relapse, two new studies suggest. In the first study ...

Those of us who have cared for someone with Alzheimer's disease know all too well the pain of trying to communicate with someone who is losing their language abilities. People with the disease tend to ...

The research, which was led by experts from the Baycrest Corporate Centre for Geriatric Care, the University of Toronto, and York University, found that certain speech patterns can be indicative of ...