Automated characterization and identification of schizophrenia in writing

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 197, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 585-588

  Strous, Rael D ^a,b   Koppel, Moshe ^c   Fine, Jonathan ^c   Nachliel, Smadar ^a   Shaked, Ginette ^a   Zivotofsky, Ari Z ^c  

^a BEER YAAKOV MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Automated text categorization; Schizophrenia; Thought disorder; Writing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEMANTICS; THOUGHT DISORDER; WRITING; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY; WRITING;

EID: 68949114475     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181b09068     Document Type: Article

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