The whisper of schizophrenia: Machine learning finds 'sound' words predict psychosis

(Emory Health Sciences) Automated analysis of the two language variables -- more frequent use of words associated with sound and speaking with low semantic density, or vagueness -- can predict whether an at-risk person will later develop psychosis with 93 percent accuracy.

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