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January 2024 Newsletter | Issue #1Shared on behalf of Dr. Lena Palaniyappan & the Discourse Executive Committee. By Paulina Dzialoszynski |
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Hello and Happy New Year! Please see below the exciting news coming from Discourse in Psychosis collaborators across the globe. |
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A note from Montreal:
Bonjour everyone,
Happy New Year 2024!
We are excited to bring another edition of the newsletter with information about how you can register and contribute to our upcoming meeting at Pavia on April 8th. There are several other exciting updates including another large EU grant for network members Drs. Wolfram Hinzen, Philipp Homan, and many others on the team. Aptly, this edition’s blog comes from Wolfram’s pen.
I cannot thank enough our Italian hosts – Drs. Valentina Bambini, Marta Bosia & team for their collaboration with the DISCOURSE program committee to enable us to meet at Pavia.
Looking forward to meeting in person soon,
Lena |
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Discourse Satellite Meeting 2024
Meeting Registration Required ASAP **RSVP deadline March 8th, 2024 |
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After a successful 2023 initial satellite meeting in Toronto, Canada, the Discourse planning committee is pleased to announce the 2024 meeting will occur on April 8th in Pavia, Italy, directly after the Florence Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS) Conference.
The meeting will be held at The University School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia, Piazza della Vittoria 15, 27100 (location within the IUSS main square).
SUBMISSIONS for Posters now open (first come, first served with 7 spots)
Submission Guidelines Title and abstract (250 word limit) Preference will be given to posters not presented at SIRS Email Sunny Tang at stang3@northwell.edu Notifications will be emailed on February 29th
We anticipate being able to support a small number of trainees/ECRs with a partial travel support (yet to be finalized), so please indicate if you are requesting support for travel.
The meeting will also be live-streamed to allow for virtual attendance.
The preliminary program agenda is below and additional details regarding travel and accommodation options for Pavia. |
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Discourse Committees and Work GroupsPlease see the attached document for the Discourse Committees and Work Groups list of members. |
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Call for Collaboration on Clinical Harmonization EffortThe clinical harmonization working group is undertaking an effort to harmonize methods for obtaining clinical ratings on thought disorder and speech and language disturbances. As a part of this effort, we are planning to look at ways to convert between rating scales, and/or creating a centralized factor-based approach. It would be particularly valuable to have participants rated on one or more of the following: TALD, TLI, TLC, SANS/SAPS, CDI. If you have clinical rating data that might be appropriate for this effort, please contact Frederike Stein (frederike.stein@staff.uni-marburg.de) or Sunny Tang (stang3@northwell.edu), and/or fill out this database with information on the data available: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DXQX2OY7hDVhP9qGyQNd6VzdTXgu83IT?usp=drive_link |
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Discourse ChroniclePlease see the attached PDF of Wolfram Hinzen’s Blog post. |
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Seminar Series 2024We’re pleased to announce that the DISCOURSE Seminar Series will be back for Spring 2024!
We are soliciting ideas, referrals, and volunteers for our 2024 seminar series. Please reach out to Sunny Tang at stang3@northwell.edu if you have a recommendation or would like to participate. We’d also love to include additional members as moderators/hosts, in addition to speakers. Please indicate your interest in participating in the Spring Series by February 15th, 2024.
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 |
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Publications
Navigating the semantic space: unraveling the structure of meaning in psychosis using different computational language models. He R, et al. January 2024. Psychiatry Research. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2024.115752
The ‘L-factor’: Language as a transdiagnostic dimension in psychopathology. Hinzen W., and Palaniyappan L. January 2024. Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnpbp.2024.110952
Language and communication rehabilitation in patients with schizophrenia: A narrative review. Jimeno N. January 2024. Heliyon. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e24897
Evidence for the factor structure of formal thought disorder: A systematic review. Zamperoni G, et al. February 2024. Schizophrenia Research. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2024.01.006 |
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Opportunities
Post-doc opportunity in Quebec, Canada. The postdoctoral fellow will be under the direct supervision of Dr. Amélie M. Achim (Université Laval) and will be co-supervised by Dr. Lena Palaniyappan (McGill University). The supervisors are building a program of research across the two sites, with the long term goal of building a speech bank for psychiatric research across Quebec. Please contact Amelie Achim (amelie.achim@fmed.ulaval.ca) |
Post-doc opportunity in Quebec, Canada. The full-time postdoctoral researcher will be under the supervision of Dr. Lena Palaniyappan & Martin Lepage. The role will involve gathering and sharing knowledge and data that will accelerate the development of better measurements and therapeutic approaches in mental health. Working with clinicians and researchers across the Alliance, the successful applicant will create a first-of-its-kind, Quebec-wide data bank of speech samples from people living with mental and neurodevelopmental disorders. This will be hosted using state-of-the-art digital infrastructure for capturing and sharing accessible data. There will also be opportunities to develop new directions and/or to collaborate on other ongoing projects at the Douglas and other collaborating IUSMs. The candidate will also have an opportunity to collaborate with global speech, language, and communication research networks led by researchers at the Douglas (e.g. DISCOURSE in Psychosis). https://ceymh-cesmj.ca/opportunities/ |
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Post-doc opportunity in Barcelona, Spain. Looking for a leading postdoctoral researcher within the new EU grant HEu-CL1-TRUSTING-101080251 – “A TRUSTworthy speech-based AI monitorING system for the prediction of relapse in psychosis patients”, Horizon Europe (2021-2027), funded by the European Research Council. The project’s aim is to predict relapse in psychosis through an AI-based speech monitoring system. PI: Wolfram Hinzen |
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Discourse Protocol
This protocol is intended for producing speech samples to be compiled into a multilingual, benchmark dataset to study language in psychosis. We currently have English, Spanish, German, French, Croatian, Turkish, Hindi, Italian, Tamil, Mandarin Chinese, and Portuguese versions of the task administration protocol.
We have now added protocol versions in Czech as well (this is not uploaded yet but drop a line if you want to access them)
Please email Dr. Maria Alonso for the latest versions. |
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Please email pdzialos@uwo.ca for any updates on grants, publications and events you want to share with the Discourse in Psychosis community Stay in touch via X (@discourseinpsy) or Slack (discourseinpsychosis.slack.com) |
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