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Your words may predict your future mental health

Mariano Sigman · TED

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Can the way you speak and write today predict your future mental state, even the onset of psychosis? In this fascinating talk, neuroscientist Mariano Sigman reflects on ancient Greece and the origins of introspection to investigate how our words hint at our inner lives and details a word-mapping algorithm that could predict the development of schizophrenia. "We may be seeing in the future a very different form of mental health," Sigman says, "based on objective, quantitative and automated analysis of the words we write, of the words we say."

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED2016
Speaker
Mariano Sigman
Year
2016
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Biology, Medicine and health, Psychology and the brain, Society and politics, Literature and writing, Languages and linguistics
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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