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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-6-16
pubmed:abstractText
Accurate measurement of negative symptoms is crucial for understanding and treating schizophrenia. However, current measurement strategies are reliant on subjective symptom rating scales, which often have psychometric and practical limitations. Computerized analysis of patients' speech offers a sophisticated and objective means of evaluating negative symptoms. The present study examined the feasibility and validity of using widely-available acoustic and lexical-analytic software to measure flat affect, alogia and anhedonia (via positive emotion). These measures were examined in their relationships to clinically-rated negative symptoms and social functioning. Natural speech samples were collected and analyzed for 14 patients with clinically-rated flat affect, 46 patients without flat affect and 19 healthy controls. The computer-based inflection and speech rate measures significantly discriminated patients with flat affect from controls, and the computer-based measure of alogia and negative emotion significantly discriminated the flat and nonflat patients. Both the computer and clinical measures of positive emotion/anhedonia corresponded to functioning impairments. The computerized method of assessing negative symptoms offered a number of advantages over the symptom scale-based approach.
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pubmed:commentsCorrections
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0022-3956
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
42
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
827-36
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-12-3
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17920078-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:17920078-Affective Symptoms, pubmed-meshheading:17920078-Commitment of Mentally Ill, pubmed-meshheading:17920078-Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted, pubmed-meshheading:17920078-Emotions, pubmed-meshheading:17920078-Female, pubmed-meshheading:17920078-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:17920078-Interview, Psychological, pubmed-meshheading:17920078-Male, pubmed-meshheading:17920078-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:17920078-Ohio, pubmed-meshheading:17920078-Prisoners, pubmed-meshheading:17920078-Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, pubmed-meshheading:17920078-Psychometrics, pubmed-meshheading:17920078-Psychotic Disorders, pubmed-meshheading:17920078-Reproducibility of Results, pubmed-meshheading:17920078-Schizophrenia, pubmed-meshheading:17920078-Schizophrenic Psychology, pubmed-meshheading:17920078-Sound Spectrography, pubmed-meshheading:17920078-Speech Acoustics, pubmed-meshheading:17920078-Speech Recognition Software, pubmed-meshheading:17920078-Verbal Behavior
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Computerized measurement of negative symptoms in schizophrenia.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. acohen@lsu.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural