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August 27, 2015 08:15 pm GMT

How computers can predict schizophrenia by the way a person talks

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Although the language of thinking is deliberate — let me think, I have to do some thinking — the actual experience of having thoughts is often passive. Ideas pop up like dandelions; thoughts occur suddenly and escape without warning. People swim in and out of pools of thought in a way that can feel, paradoxically, mindless.

Most of the time, people don't actively track the way one thought flows into the next. But in psychiatry, much attention is paid to such intricacies of thinking. For instance, disorganized thought, evidenced by disjointed patterns in speech, is considered a hallmark characteristic of schizophrenia. Several studies of at-risk youths have found that doctors are able to guess with impressive accuracy — the best predictive models hover around 79% — whether a person will develop psychosis based on tracking that person's speech patterns in interviews. Read more...

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