Nature

Brain structural associations of syntactic complexity and diversity across schizophrenia spectrum and major depressive disorders, and healthy controls

Deviant thinking, language, and communication, collectively known as formal thought disorder (FTD), have been extensively documented within schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD), encompassing the ...
Nature

Syntactic complexity and diversity of spontaneous speech production in schizophrenia spectrum and major depressive disorders

Syntax, the grammatical structure of sentences, is a fundamental aspect of language. It remains debated whether reduced syntactic complexity is unique to schizophrenia spectrum disorder (SSD) or ...
The Conversation

Tool use and language skills are linked in the brain – and practising one improves the other

Language has traditionally been considered a complex skill which mobilises brain networks specifically dedicated to linguistic processing. But in recent years, neuroscience research has returned to ...