Lena K. Palaniyappan
@lena_pl
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🚨 New findings from a study led by @JuliannaOlh1! We highlight the potential of 5-minute remote speech assessments to accurately diagnose complex mental health conditions, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and MDD. 🧠💬nature.com/articles/s4139… 1/3
Two of my poems about depression, published by CUP in the British Journal of Psychiatry cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Very happy and proud to share with you our recently published systematic review on “Neurocognitive Alterations in Offspring of Individuals with Schizophrenia”, conducted in collaboration with @AnaCatalanPSQ Team 🙌🧠doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac…
Reading Between the Lines: Combining Pause Dynamics and Semantic Coherence for Automated Assessment of Thought Disorder. arxiv.org/abs/2507.13551
📣Last call for language in psychosis 📰I`m editing w/ @AmelieAchim a SI in Schizophrenia Research: Cognition on communication in psychosis 📆Deadline: 31st October 2025 👉To submit: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/…
📣 For brain and language enthusiasts: 📰 I'm editing a SI w/ @lena_pl & @straubeb_81 in Neuropsychologia on connections between language and brain function in psychosis. 📆 Deadline : September 30th 2025 (contact me if you need extension) 👉To submit: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/…
Check out this 🆕 paper form @lena_pl & @AVoppel et al showing that speech spectrograms can track negative symptom severity in schizophrenia nature.com/articles/s4427…
New work led by Gleb Melshin with @MachGaensslen's support & @AVoppel with @BBRFoundation's support using @discourseinpsy speech data. Clinically important negative symptoms are detectable via speech spectrograms in #psychosis. nature.com/articles/s4427…
Great moment yerterday at Dundee University during the meeting invited by the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science to present our Santander-Discourse&Cognition data on psychosis patients and first degree relatives 🧠🙌
To attract top global talent, #WesternU is doubling the number of Postdoctoral Fellowship Program awards and launching the new US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Awards. #CdnPSE #HigherEd news.westernu.ca/2025/07/phd-po…
Happy to see this work published with @lena_pl - Negative psychosis symptoms are detectable via speech spectrograms & CNNs. nature.com/articles/s4427… thanks to our support (for Gleb Melshin with @MachGaensslen & for me @BBRFoundation) using @discourseinpsy data.
New work led by Gleb Melshin with @MachGaensslen's support & @AVoppel with @BBRFoundation's support using @discourseinpsy speech data. Clinically important negative symptoms are detectable via speech spectrograms in #psychosis. nature.com/articles/s4427…
CANMAT perinatal guidelines are a must read for clinicians who provide care for women with mood and anxiety disorders. The commentaries from international experts provide further insights for clinicians and researchers.
The June issue is available online, including new papers on perinatal mood and anxiety problems and, yes, the new CANMAT clinical guidelines. journals.sagepub.com/toc/cpab/70/6
Reduced controllability of functional connectome during working memory performance is a transdiagnostic feature of major mental disorders #Schizophrenia > #Bipolar + #Depression spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/r…
This study identified a prefrontal-limbic structural covariance network with ⬇️ gray matter volume specific to treatment-resistant schizophrenia, linked to serotonergic, glutamatergic, histaminergic, & opioid receptor distributions 🧠 nature.com/articles/s4138…
Frontal reduction and sensory/motor enhancement (FR-SE) pattern of thalamocortical connectivity occurs at a structural level in early onset #schizophrenia -- led by Weidan Pu @CentralSouth_U sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Caroline Nettekoven's Brain Star Award winning publication has led to the development of a functional atlas of the human cerebellum can-acn.org/brain-star-awa… @WesternU @carobellum @cihr_irsc
Now online - - had great fun thinking about this with colleagues from Shanghai! nature.com/articles/s4422… "brain-based heterogeneity is not a static feature; it is more pronounced at the onset of the disorder but reduced over the long term"
Heterogeneity appears to be mutable and 'front-loaded' in the course of schizophrenia; anatomical variability is high early on, but converges to be more predictable in the established phase medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
🚨 NEW RESEARCH! ⚕️ 🩺 🧠 Elleuch et al. explore the association of grammatical challenges in people with #Schizophrenia in a systematic review and meta-analysis of 45 studies. nature.com/articles/s4385… @lena_pl
We’re live at the #BrainBridge webinar with Prof. Lena Palaniyappan!
We're excited to invite you to our upcoming #BrainBridge webinar: Actionable Neuroimaging for Non-Invasive Therapeutics in Severe Mental Illnesses with Prof. @lena_pl, @mcgillu 📅 June 23, 2025 | 🕠 5:30 PM IST Register here: forms.gle/EMwQYXhiBoabd2…
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We want to transform early intervention for youth mental health. Our new funding award will help achieve this. Across two phases, it aims to accelerate the development and roll out of effective psychological and social interventions. 🧵[1/4]