Discourse Satellite Meeting - Program

Welcome and Introduction

Valentina Bambini and Andrea Moro (IUSS Pavia, Italy) – VIDEO

The DISCOURSE Network Introduction

Protocol + TalkBank (PsychosisBank), Overview – SLIDES/VIDEO
Lena Palaniyappan (Douglas Hospital Research Centre & McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
Sunny Tang (Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Glen Oaks, USA)

DISCOURSE – Italian Chapter
Chair: Roberto Cavallaro

Schizophrenia and the language of dreams: from Kraepelin’s schizophasia to contemporary research – SLIDES/VIDEO
Armando D’Agostino (University of Milan & ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo, Milan, Italy)

Language and communication disturbances in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: the role of different modalities of cognitive remediation interventions – SLIDES/VIDEO
Stefano Barlati (University of Brescia & Spedali Civili Hospital, Brescia, Italy)

Toward unique sensorimotor-language biomarkers of schizophrenia SLIDES/VIDEO
Matteo Tonna (University of Parma & Local Health Service, Parma, Italy)

Cognitive exercises of semantic differentiation (Co.Di.S.) as a potentiating strategy in the rehabilitation of psychosis: the role of multidimensional language assessment – SLIDES/VIDEO
Giorgio Di Lorenzo (Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy)

Disorganization dimension in early psychosis – SLIDES/VIDEO
Lorenzo Pelizza (University of Bologna, Bologna & Azienda USL di Parma, Parma)

Clinical services for psychosis: is there room for pragmatic language assessment and rehabilitation? – SLIDES/VIDEO
Marta Bosia (Vita Salute University & IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy)

DISCOURSE – Session 1
Chairs: Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Alban Voppel

Clinical Harmonization – SLIDES/VIDEO
Frederike Stein (University of Marburg, Germany)
Sunny Tang (Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Glen Oaks, USA)

Mechanisms & Models – SLIDES/VIDEO
Gina R. Kuperberg (Tufts University, USA)
Maria Francisca Alonso-Sánchez (Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile)

Clinical Translation – SLIDES/VIDEO
Susan Rossell (Swinburne University of Technology & St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia)
Valentina Bambini (IUSS Pavia, Italy)

DISCOURSE – Session 2
Chairs: Federico Frau, Sunny Tang

Computational Methods – SLIDES/VIDEO
Alban Voppel (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
Sunny Tang (Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Glen Oaks, USA)

Industry Collaborations and Stakeholder – SLIDES/VIDEO
Natália Mota (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Juliana Olah (King’s College London, UK)

Lived experience – SLIDES/VIDEO
Oliver Delgaram (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)

Wrap-up and discussion – VIDEO
Lena Palaniyappan (Douglas Hospital Research Centre & McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
Valentina Bambini (IUSS Pavia, Italy)

DISCOURSE – Poster Session

Language profile of ultra-high risk and first episode of psychosis patients – POSTER
Derya Cokal & Emre Bora

Assessment of language and communication impairments using the TLC scale in a control group versus a gender and age-matched group of patients with severe mental illness coming from a users’ association –POSTER                                                                                                                             Andrea Rodríguez, Antonio Arjona, Javier Cano, Javier Alonso & Natalia Jimeno

Changes in the structure of spontaneous speech predict the disruption of hierarchical brain organization in first-episode psychosis – POSTER
Rui He, Maria Francisca Alonso-Sánchez, Jorge Sepulcre, Lena Palaniyappan & Wolfram Hinzen

Approximating the semantic space: word embedding techniques in psychiatric speech analysis – POSTER
Claudio Palominos, Karla Fröhlich, Frederike Stein, Tilo Kircher & Wolfram Hinzen

Disorganization in young patients with first episode schizophrenia: treatment and psychopathological considerations from a 2-year Italian follow-up study- POSTER
Lorenzo Pelizza, Emanuela Leuci, Emanuela Quattrone, Clara Pellegrini, Lara Bernardi, Arianna Biancalani, Fabio Catalano & Marco Menchetti

Voice markers of schizophrenia: assessing the generalizability of machine learning models and their clinical applicability – POSTER
Alberto Parola, Astrid Rybner, Emil Trenckner Jessen, Marie Damsgaard Mortensen, Stine Nyhus Larsen, Jessica Mary Lin, Arndis Simonsen, Yuan Zhou, Huiling Wang, Shiho Ubukata, Katja Koelkebeck, Vibeke Bliksted & Riccardo Fusaroli

Brain Stimulation effects on negative Thought Disorder: a MRI and BERT Analysis – POSTER
Alban Voppel, Mengdi Zhu, Evelyn Chan, Jessica Ahrens, Hani Abdelhafez, Farida Zaher, Nadia Zeramdini, Huan Huang & Lena Palaniyappan

Disconnected speech and altered peripersonal space: bridging language and motricity in schizophrenia – POSTER
Francesca Magnani, Linda Dori, Veronica Sordi, Alberto Dell’Eva, Francesca Ferroni & Matteo Tonna

Unlocking Cognitive Potential: The Efficacy of Co.di.s Intervention and Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Audio-Recorded Speech in Psychotic Spectrum Disorder – POSTER
Valerio De Lorenzo, Federico Fiori Nastro, Fabiola Ferrentino, Francesca Russo, Syria Dimonte, Valeria Gosti, Maria Chiara Scaramella, Alberto Siracusano, Cinzia Niolu, Giorgio Di Lorenzo

Electric brain: neurophysiological correlats of pragmatics in schizophrenia – POSTER
Giulia Agostoni, Sara Zago, Margherita Bechi, Jacopo Sapienza, Federica Repaci, Roberto Cavallaro, Valentina Bambini, Giorgio Arcara & Bosia Marta

Psychedelic discourse: a neurolinguistic approach to LSD and psilocybin – POSTER
Jacopo Sapienza, Chiara Battaglini, Federico Frau, Valentina Bambini & Marta Bosia

Distributional semantics and machine learning: A combined approach to language analysis in schizophrenia – POSTER
Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Biagio Scalingi, Federico Frau, Giulia Agostoni, Margherita Bechi, Roberto Cavallaro, Marta Bosia, Nicholas Bianchini, Flavio Bertini, Valentina Bambini

Word concreteness and mental imagery underlie figurative language impairment in schizophrenia: the promise for the DISCOURSE approach – POSTER
Federico Frau, Luca Bischetti & Valentina Bambini
In collaboration with the Schizophrenia Research and Clinical Unit at IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital & Vita-Salute San Raffaele Hospital (PIs: Roberto Cavallaro & Marta Bosia)

Language and Metaphor Production in Psychosis: a Window into Subjective Experience – POSTER
Biagio Scalingi, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Marta Bosia & Valentina Bambini
In collaboration with the Psychiatry Unit at IRCCS San Matteo Hospital (Pierluigi Politi, Cecilia Spallarossa, Alessandro Peviani, Sofia Iris Kormpaki, Cristiano Nichini)