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Looking forward to the DISCOURSE seminar tomorrow! Now at an Australia-friendly time 😊 Professor Susan Ross

Extremely honored to receive the NWO Vidi grant, which will be devoted to unpacking the origins of human language (and particularly, the evolution of compositionality and lying) using state-of-the-art virtual reality & swarm robotics tools at Radboud University 🙏🥹🎉 Watch this space!

pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… interesting lead for #psychosis here. DISCOURSEgroup

5 minute survey to help understand relapse in psychosis. For both patients and clinicians! Deadline: November 17th

#Preprint alert! At North Shore Therapeutics (northshore.health), we're using augmented reality #AR to bring an effective, evidence-based treatment for negative symptoms to people with #schizophrenia. 1/2 medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Check this out! Syntactic complexity and diversity are correlated with gray and white matter brain structure across depression and schizophrenia. DISCOURSEgroup #Neuroscience #mentalhealth doi.org/10.1038/s41537…

A reminder for our updated seminar schedule!

Over the past months, we’ve been exploring speech patterns predictive of psychosis symptoms across languages 🗣️🌍 Excited for the upcoming start of the clinical trial to put our findings into action!

Humans use language to express thoughts primarily built around the basic agent-patient causal structure *who does what to whom* Is this a structure of language or a structure of thought? Does it exist outside language? A new wave of exciting papers speak to this question. A 🧵👇

🧵 1/ Excited to share my latest #research Our paper, "Approximating the semantic space: word embedding techniques in psychiatric speech analysis", is now published in Schizophrenia Journal by Springer Nature. Read it here: rdcu.be/d1ZeS

A great thing about DISCOURSEgroup is how exponential collaborations grow! Don't miss Rosa Ayesa's talk if you are in Zagreb tomorrow!

Incredible new open access study in Schizophrenia Bulletin of over 170,000 patients on types of delusional themes encountered in psychosis. Twenty-one different themes were identified, with the most common being paranoid, referential, and familial. academic.oup.com/schizophreniab…

💡Don't miss the first #DISCOURSE seminar of the season! 🗓️Feb 18, 7-8 AM ET. 🗣️The Desipher Lab will present on speech in clinical high-risk individuals in the ENTER study. DISCOURSEgroup Link: mcgill.zoom.us/my/lenapl #discourseconsortium #psychosis

Can AI-based language models help us quantify disorganized thinking from speech? 🧠 And to what extent do they align with human expert assessments? 🧑‍⚕️ I’ll discuss this at the SOPSI Conference in Rome this Wednesday—excited for the discussion with researchers and clinicians!

"Involvement of episodic memory in language comprehension: Naturalistic comprehension pushes unrelated words closer in semantic space for at least 12h" 📢New paper from: Matthew Mak, Lewis Ball, Alice O'Hagan, Catherine Walsh, & M. Gareth Gaskell sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Excited to discuss ongoing analyses and recent findings on Positive FTD at the DISCOURSEgroup meeting this Friday with Valeria. Hope to see you there!

"The Future of the Psychiatrist", new and free Psychiatric Research and Clinical Practice psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ap…. Covering how the psychiatrist's role needs to evolve to adapt to the changes ahead.

"A scoping review of large language models for generative tasks in mental health care" - new from our team in npj Digital Medicine ... results.. 'highlight need for a unified, rigorous framework to assess and validate LLM in mental health systematically.' nature.com/articles/s4174…

In this new paper, John Rucker, Psy.D., and I examine the relationship between personality disorders and language. We believe it is the first empirical study to show that individuals with PDs are more likely to engage in double-bind communication. researchsquare.com/article/rs-661…

🚀 Excited to share the most inspiring work I’ve been part of this year: "Learning to Reason without External Rewards" TL;DR: We show that LLMs can learn complex reasoning without access to ground-truth answers, simply by optimizing their own internal sense of confidence. 1/n