ArticleEuropean psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists2026
Linking spontaneous speech, cognition, and psychopathology across affective and psychotic disorders: A network approach.
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- Expressive writing combined with digital cognitive therapy in patients with schizophrenia: a narrative review of efficacy, linguistic phenotypes, and adherence modulators.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Grounding psychosis research: why observable signs should anchor biological investigations.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
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Abstract
backgroundLanguage impairments are common in affective and psychotic disorders, yet their patterns and underlying pathomechanisms remain insufficiently understood. A transdiagnostic perspective provides a framework for identifying shared and disorder-specific language alterations across diagnostic boundaries. Combining natural language processing (NLP) with network analysis enables the investigation of complex associations between linguistic, cognitive, and psychopathological features.
methodsSpontaneous speech from
resultsLinguistic variables formed the densest network cluster, with type-token ratio, mean length of utterance, and syntactic complexity emerging as central nodes. Psychopathology variables were less cohesive, while TLI "Impoverishment", coherence mean, and executive functioning bridged linguistic, cognitive, and psychopathological domains. Network comparison tests revealed no significant differences in linguistic-cognitive network structure across HC, MDD, BD, and SSD.
conclusionsLinguistic networks show high structural consistency across healthy individuals and patients, whereas psychopathological symptom networks reflect transdiagnostic profiles. These findings support a dimensional and transdiagnostic framework underscore shared language-cognition mechanisms, and highlight executive functioning as key cross-domain connection, which opens up new avenues for dimensional research into the pathophysiological and etiological mechanisms underlying language dysfunctions.
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