Your words may predict your future mental health | Mariano Sigman

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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[thekipreosneo]

When it comes to medical research talks, TED should also share the links of the studies associated

[Alex_gee_white]

the fact that they mapped the rise of introspection in ancient literature is mind blowing.

[audreygreene]

Thank you! Thank you! I read Julian Jaynes' "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" 40 years ago, and it changed my life. Essentially, it freed me from religious belief. Since then, I've tried to find either definitive support or refutation of Jaynes' assertions. Today I happened upon this wonderful talk, which not only supports his work but moves on to open the possibilities of diagnosing mental illness including perhaps, some forms of dementia which is a key focus of my work life. Thank you again, for the illumination!

[MrHimypeeps]

This is a concept most people grasp without even realizing it and is at the very basis of human empathy. Some people in particular are able to excel at it, for example many diagnosed sociopaths describe being able to read and manipulate people's emotions with tactics similar to this.

[ignaciocorto]

"How lovely it is that there are words and tones: are words and tones not rainbows and seeming-bridges between what is eternally separated?" — Thus Spoke Zarathustra

[kintrbr]

In one video touched on evolution of consciousness as well as on psychologycal health issues. Well done

[weefeatures]

Cross between Jimmy Fallon and Mark Ruffalo

[toten]

This is very similar to the whole, "You are what you eat" saying. You are what you say you are.

[joshuatran]

This is the most impressive breakthrough i have seen in quite a while

[theskv]

I'd like the source code. TED could do well by linking to people's research

[allinicole]

Makes me think of what people do now with their positive affirmations

[gromigur]

Reminds me of the story Psychopass where all humans got a wristband to monitor their mental state and is observed constantly by it. Not to say it wouldn't be nice to be able to help people who dont show it, but still also opens the Path to more control over people if really possible and used wrong

[andycordy]

Tremendous. How easy it will be in the future for us to write off any writing which uses metaphor as the prelude to schizophrenia

[JohnVKaravitis]

"Semantic coherence". Yes. Yes.  10:10But what were the results? Which group was schizophrenic???

[FreyaFleurNoire]

Dude this insight is incredible! Further proves the idea of how our words and thoughts make a HUGE difference.

[GriffinSinclair]

Speaking this well, about such a complicated field of research, and in another language is just incredible. Learned a lot, thank you!

[sturlasnik]

All algorithms have edge cases, no one algorithms is ever 100% correct.
Obviously humans would be worse at judging, but when processes are automated people tend to judge more indifferent or detached.
The fault still lies with humans, but the means create the gains - and people tend to loose perspective in automated processes.

[thebestusername]

I would love to see what Palo said in his Tweets. Or some examples of the written speech of people on the studies and have him break it down for us. That would have been so interesting to see.

[tommeakin]

"Big brother is watching".

Was kind of sounding like that's the future of looking after peoples mental health ^^

[lgcseer]

I do understand the importance of this new introspection of the human mind to eventually foresee future mental health of individuals. The use of hand picked context specific ideas, chronologically flows with your accented speech, to solidify further this merging innovation in the field of psychology and mathematics. I truly relish the However, my heart pounds with screams of fear and echos endlessly that probing the contructs of how we think and learning the structure of individual algorithm of how we speak is well entwined with our Emotions & Moods.Thus, this is a necessary reminder of the upcoming dilemma on our hands. Good Luck for your future endeavours.