Latent mechanisms of language disorganization relate to specific dimensions of psychopathology

A new paper in Nature Mental Health:

# Latent mechanisms of language disorganization relate to specific dimensions of psychopathology

Via the Twitter account of lead author Isaac Fradkin - here’s his post

One interesting quote, in this tweet:

Whereas Formal Thought Disorder, prevalent in psychosis, is usually diagnosed based on speech incoherence, computational modeling of associative output allowed us to uncover disorganized semantic retrieval as a core mechanism, evident even when language output is intact.