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February 2023 Newsletter | Issue #1

By Paulina Dzialoszynski, Sabrina D. Ford and María F. Alonso

Happy New Year!

We are pleased to send you another update on the activities of our consortium.

Seminar Series 2023

We’re pleased to announce that the DISCOURSE Seminar Series is back for 2023! This year we will be highlighting work from the Schizophrenia Bulletin – Language in Psychosis special issue. For your convenience, we will keep seminar details up to date on this public google calendar, which you can subscribe to: https://tinyurl.com/3b568arx

Here’s our lineup for Spring 2023!

• March 10th, 2023 9:00am-10:30am ET:
  “Neural correlates of formal thought disorder dimensions in psychosis – An analysis using the four dimensions of the TALD scale” – Sebastian Walther

  “Dimensions of Formal Thought Disorder and Their Relation to Gray- and White Matter Brain Structure in Affective and Psychotic Disorders” – Frederike Stein

  
  

• March 24th, 2023 9:00am-10:30am ET:

  “Semantic speech networks – A novel approach to capturing speech abnormalities in psychosis” – Caroline Nettekoven

  
  

• April 14th, 2023 9:00am-10:30am ET:

  “Syntactic Network Analysis in Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders” – Silvia Ciampelli & Janne de Boer

  
  

• May 5th, 2023 9:00-10:30am ET:

  “Language Analytics for Assessment of Mental Health Status and Functional Competency” – Rohit Voleti

We have another great series planned for the fall, including talks from Roberto Limongi, Alberto Parola, Sunny Tang, Claudio Palominos, Rui He, Lena Palaniyappan, Iris Sommer, and Hugo Corona Hernandez. More details to follow!

Join all seminar dates via zoom: https://northwellhealth.zoom.us/j/6317863737

Schizophrenia Bulletin Special Issue Update

As the commissioning editors, we are pleased to provide you with an update on the status of the upcoming special issue. It is currently being prepared for print and online release in March 2023. As the journal has a policy of releasing special issue papers online as a single set, this has caused a delay in the appearance of these articles on the Schizophrenia Bulletin website upon acceptance. However, we are pleased to see that many of the accepted manuscripts are now available on preprint servers. We hope that this special issue will be highly cited in the coming two years and the DISCOURSE seminars committee is inviting all authors to present at monthly webinars in 2023.

Lena Palaniyappan, Iris Sommer, & Eric Tan

Discourse Protocol

This protocol is intended for producing speech samples to be compiled into a multilingual, benchmark dataset for the purpose of studying language in psychosis. We currently have English, Spanish, German, French, Croatian and Portuguese versions of the task administration protocol.

We have now added protocol versions in Turkish and Hindi.

Please email Dr. Maria Alonso for the latest versions.

SIRS 2023 Toronto: Satellite Discourse Meeting

You are being invited to the 2023 DISCOURSE Consortium SIRS-Satellite Meeting being held in Toronto, Canada, on May 11th 2023 from 8AM-6PM at the Westin Harbour Castle. This meeting will occur just before the Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS) congress meeting, in the same location.

The aims of the satellite meeting will include:

1) Building consensus on common methodologies.

2) Developing shared understanding of the meta-data and analytical resources across the consortium.

3) Exploring joint initiatives and projects.

Please register using the link below to register and provide additional details to help us in planning this event.

*Each individual should register separately (e.g. research coordinators), even if they are traveling from the same group

If you have any questions about the event or attendance, please reach out to Sabrina Ford at Sabrina.Ford@lhsc.on.ca

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Natalia Mota for winning the Global Schizophrenia Award! This is a truly outstanding achievement and a testament to her hard work, dedication, and passion in the field of language!

Please email Sabrina.Ford@lhsc.on.ca for any updates on grants, publications and events you want to share with the Discourse in Psychosis community

Stay in touch via Twitter (@discourseinpsy) or Slack (discourseinpsychosis.slack.com)