Evidence of disturbances of deep levels of semantic cohesion within personal narratives in schizophrenia

Since initial conceptualizations, schizophrenia has been thought to involve core disturbances in the ability to form complex, integrated ideas. Although this has been studied in terms of formal thought disorder, the level of involvement of altered latent semantic structure is less clear. To explore this question, we compared the personal narratives of adults with schizophrenia (n=200) to those produced by an HIV+ sample (n=55) using selected indices from Coh-Metrix. Coh-Metrix is a software system designed to compute various language usage statistics from transcribed written and spoken language documents.

Source: Schizophrenia Research - November 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jon A. Willits, Timothy Rubin, Michael N. Jones, Kyle S. Minor, Paul H. Lysaker Source Type: research