So long, Blue Sky! I'm consolidating my social media presence and planning to no longer actively post here. Please follow me on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/sunnyxtang/

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Can we automate clinical assessment of thought disorder by finetuning an #LLM? Come find out at our #ACNP2026 poster this evening (Tue) #12!

Shhhhh! I know you're not supposed to choose favorites as a PI, but I might be attending #ACNP2026 with my favorite @stanglab.bsky.social member 🥰🤪🤩.

#NewPaperAlert 😎! We developed a prototype for an Augmented Reality (#AR) smartphone app (NST-SPARK) that delivers recovery-oriented cognitive therapy targeting negative symptoms of schizophrenia and completed a preliminary study... 1/5 dx.doi.org/10.1111/eip....

Preliminary Findings From an Augmented Reality (AR) App Delivering Recovery‐Oriented Cognitive Therapy for Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia

Background NST-SPARK is a novel digital therapeutic targeting negative symptoms in schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD). It is a smartphone application delivering recovery-oriented cognitive thera...

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New paper alert! Check out our new manuscript in @SchizRes Cognition, led by Sunghye Cho. Here we used automated speech and language analysis to compare verbal fluency responses from people with psychosis, depression, and healthy controls. 1/5 lnkd.in/eg8Y-gGJ

Grateful to the press team at @northwellhealth.bsky.social for the lovely feature on my recent R01! Thanks for doing so much to raise the visibility of our science. Couldn't do this without our fantastic team, past and present. feinstein.northwell.edu/news/the-lat...

I'm saddened this morning by the death of Jane Goodall. Growing up as a little girl in the 90's, she was one of two women scientists (+Marie Curie) who had a real presence as role models. I feel very grateful that now, there are so many more. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/s...

‘There Will Always Only Be One Jane Goodall’

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Glad to share our new article out in Cognitive Neuropsychiatry! We assessed relationships between symptoms and sentiment in speech during picture descriptions from people with psychosis across 2 cohorts and 2 timepoints... 1/4 doi.org/10.1080/1354...

Very honored for our work (with Julianna Olah) to be featured by @bbrfoundation.bsky.social! We showed that a brief speech sample could provide meaningful signal informing on psychosis-related disorders. Original publication in Translational Psychiatry. bbrfoundation.org/content/5-mi...

Super stoked to share that we received the #NOA for our R01!!! We will be using speech and language markers to develop personalized, adaptive markers for #psychosis. Very grateful for the support from the NIMH.

🚨 New findings from a study led by Juliana Olah! Our recent study highlights the potential of 5-minute remote speech assessments to accurately diagnose complex mental health conditions, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and MDD. 🧠💬 1/3 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Detecting schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, psychosis vulnerability and major depressive disorder from 5 minutes of online-collected speech - Translational Psychiatry

Translational Psychiatry - Detecting schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, psychosis vulnerability and major depressive disorder from 5 minutes of online-collected speech

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Check it out! Our work on using automated speech and language features for longitudinal modeling of #psychosis symptoms is featured in this podcast-style summary from @dpn-journal.bsky.social !

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Could speech patterns reveal the 'vital signs' of psychosis? The latest DPN Deep Dive summarizes recent work by @stanglab.bsky.social et al showing that automated speech analysis generated objective features predictive of thought disorder, negative, & positive symptoms. youtu.be/TR3s-CJ-cqE?...

Very excited to share our new paper available open-access via @dpn_journal! We evaluated objected features derived from automated speech and language processing as markers of #psychosis symptoms over time. 1/6 rdcu.be/erkV0

Automated speech and language markers of longitudinal changes in psychosis symptoms

NPP—Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience - Automated speech and language markers of longitudinal changes in psychosis symptoms

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Really proud for our work at the Tang Lab to be featured on this month's issue of Science and Discovery! @northwellhealth.bsky.social www.northwell.edu/news/insight...

Hope you can join for what will be a fantastic talk!

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💡Don't miss the last #DISCOURSE seminar of the season! 🗓️March 7, 9-10 AM ET. 🗣️Two researchers will present their recent findings — details in the comments. Link: zoom.us/j/6317863737 #discourseconsortium #psychosis

Hope to see everyone at our seminar next week! Note the updated zoom link this time.

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💡Don't miss the first #DISCOURSE seminar of the season! 🗓️Feb 18, 7-8 AM ET. 🗣️The Desipher Lab will present on speech in clinical high-risk individuals in the ENTER study. Link: mcgill.zoom.us/my/lenapl #discourseconsortium #psychosis

I’m excited to share this paper now published in Psychological Medicine and reporting work from my postdoc with Dr. Greg Strauss at the University of Georgia, with a focus on improving our understanding of reward processing difficulties and negative symptoms. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Really appreciate this article from NPR highlighting the importance of the NIH in keeping Americans healthy and fighting our common enemies like mental illness, cancer and heart disease. The current disruptions are hurting all of us. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

A sense of foreboding hangs over the National Institutes of Health

There's widespread confusion and fear among scientists and doctors on the sprawling National Institutes of Health campus and at institutions dependent on the agency's funding.

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Reminder! Submit your abstracts for poster and oral presentations for our DISCOURSE Satellite Meeting by 2/14/25! forms.gle/nW5K9MGtBkqQ...

When your mom life and your science skills intersect... and you use your academic poster template to make a science fair poster for your kindergartener...

Hey #ACNP2024! Come check out our poster using speech and language features and #MachineLearning for classification in a multi-diagnostic sample. Tuesday #84.

North Shore Therapeutics is presenting our preliminary findings suggesting that our AR prototype is promising for targeting negative symptoms in #schizophrenias! Check it out - Poster S11 #TIPS2024.

Check out our poster at #TIPS2024 describing our multimodal acoustics and NLP pipeline at the Tang Lab!

New paper online! Congrats to Amir Nikzad, our PGY1 research track resident on his fantastic work. We explored the use of linguistic features derived from #NLP as objective markers of psychotherapeutic processes in #schizophrenia. doi.org/10.1111/eip.... 1/5

Evolution of Linguistic Markers of Agency, Centrality and Content During Metacognitive Therapy for Psychosis: A Pilot Exploratory Study

Aim Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy (MERIT) is a form of person-centred psychotherapy that promotes recovery-oriented outcomes by targeting metacognitive capacity. Previous research has...

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