An automated method to analyze language use in patients with schizophrenia and their first-degree relatives

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 270-284

  Elvevåg, Brita ^a   Foltz, Peter W ^b,c   Rosenstein, Mark ^b   DeLisi, Lynn E ^d,e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b Pearson Knowledge Technologies   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e Clinical Neuroscience Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse; Latent semantic analysis; Schizophrenia; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; FAMILY ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 76349101875     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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