Sunny X. Tang, M.D.
@stanglab.bsky.social
Psychiatrist | Scientist | Academic Research Mom | Schizophrenia | Psychosis | Computational Psychiatry | Natural Language Processing | Views my own
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.
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‘There Will Always Only Be One Jane Goodall’
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October 2, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/s...
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...
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...
September 16, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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...
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.
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With 5 Minutes of Recorded Speech, Machine Learning Attempts to Distinguish Psychosis-Related Disorders from Bipolar Disorder and Major Depression | Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
In a new paper, researchers co-led by a BBRF grantee demonstrate a computer-based method for analyzing just 5 minutes of recorded speech to help distinguish people with a variety of psychiatric condit...
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September 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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...
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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.
July 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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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July 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
🚨 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...
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.
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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.
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What if speech patterns could reveal the 'vital signs' of psychosis?
YouTube video by NPP - Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience (DPN)
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July 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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 !
@dpn-journal.bsky.social !
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
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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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June 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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
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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
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May 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Really proud for our work at the Tang Lab to be featured on this month's issue of Science and Discovery! @northwellhealth.bsky.social
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Hope you can join for what will be a fantastic talk!
💡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
🗓️March 7, 9-10 AM ET.
🗣️Two researchers will present their recent findings — details in the comments.
Link: zoom.us/j/6317863737
#discourseconsortium #psychosis
March 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Hope you can join for what will be a fantastic talk!
Hope to see everyone at our seminar next week! Note the updated zoom link this time.
💡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
🗓️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
February 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Hope to see everyone at our seminar next week! Note the updated zoom link this time.
Reposted by Sunny X. Tang, M.D.
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.
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A generalized reward processing deficit pathway to negative symptoms across diagnostic boundaries | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
A generalized reward processing deficit pathway to negative symptoms across diagnostic boundaries - Volume 55
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February 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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...
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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.
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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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February 5, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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...
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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...
January 27, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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...
January 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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.
December 10, 2024 at 4:40 PM
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.
December 7, 2024 at 10:26 PM
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.
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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November 22, 2024 at 2:13 PM
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