<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>Seminário do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estatística da UFPE</strong></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:start;white-space:pre-wrap">Speech Graphs as a Tool for Psychiatric Diagnosis</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:center"> </p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:center"> </p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:start;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Mauro Copelli</span><br></p><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:13px;text-align:start;white-space:pre-wrap">Departamento de Física - UFPE</span><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:center"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:center"> </div><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26)">Data: 03 de dezembro de 2014 (quarta-feira)</span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:center"> </p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:center"> </p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:center"> </p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Horário: 16:00 horas</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Local: Auditório Ruy Gomes - Departamento de Estatística da UFPE, <br></span><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Segundo andar do CCEN</span></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap">Resumo</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap">Early psychiatry investigated dreams to understand psychopathologies. Contemporary psychiatry, which neglects dreams, has been criticized for lack of objectivity. In search of quantitative insight into the structure of psychotic speech, we investigated speech graph attributes (SGA) in patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder type I, and non-psychotic controls as they reported waking and dream contents. Schizophrenic subjects spoke with reduced connectivity, in tight correlation with negative and cognitive symptoms measured by standard psychometric scales. Bipolar and control subjects were undistinguishable by waking reports, but in dream reports bipolar subjects showed significantly less connectivity. Dream-related SGA outperformed psychometric scores or waking-related data for group sorting. The results demonstrate the feasibility of the differential diagnosis of psychosis based on the analysis of dream graphs, pointing to a fast, low-cost and language-invariant tool for psychiatric diagnosis and the objective search for biomarkers. The Freudian notion that "dreams are the royal road to the unconscious" is clinically useful, after all.</span><br></div></div><span class=""><font color="#888888">-- <br><div><div dir="ltr">Francisco José A. Cysneiros<div>Associate professor </div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(238,238,238);font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-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