Predictive Linguistic Features of Schizophrenia

@article{SariogluKayi2017PredictiveLF,
  title={Predictive Linguistic Features of Schizophrenia},
  author={Efsun Sarioglu Kayi and Mona T. Diab and Luca Pauselli and Michael T. Compton and Glen A. Coppersmith},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2017},
  volume={abs/1810.09377}
}
Schizophrenia is one of the most disabling and difficult to treat of all human medical/health conditions, ranking in the top ten causes of disability worldwide. It has been a puzzle in part due to difficulty in identifying its basic, fundamental components. Several studies have shown that some manifestations of schizophrenia (e.g., the negative symptoms that include blunting of speech prosody, as well as the disorganization symptoms that lead to disordered language) can be understood from the… 
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