Using Large Language Models to Understand Thought Disorder and Predict Psychosis Open Access
Bilgrami, Zarina (Summer 2023)
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Abstract
Thought disorder (TD) is defined as any internal, cognitive disturbance affecting the organization, control, processing, or expression of thought. It is a key characteristic of schizophrenia and psychosis spectrum disorders. Two kinds of TD are widely recognized in schizophrenia and are typically measured through patients’ language. One is reflected in local language disorganization, caused by unusual word choices and sequencing. The other concerns non-local disruptions in the flow of ideas across multiple sentences, implying conceptual disorganization. Prior work on TD using computational methods has focused on local disruptions. Here we propose a novel approach to the detection and measurement non-local thought disorganization. We used a new class of artificial intelligence called large language models (LLMs) to examine disorganization across sentences by measuring its ability to predict sentences subjects spoke during their interviews. The model was provided with patient narratives of individuals at clinical high-risk (CHR) for psychosis. The narratives were provided to the model either intact or with the sentence order shuffled. If people’s narratives lack global organization, then shuffled narratives should be as effective as intact narratives in at facilitating the prediction of sentences. As expected, intact narratives were more effective than shuffled narratives in facilitating sentence prediction in CHR individuals who did not convert to psychosis (CHR-) than in individuals that converted to psychosis (CHR+). Also as predicted, the LLM was less able to predict individual words in CHR+ than in individuals CHR-. These findings support and expand upon work suggesting that conversion to psychosis is signaled by both local and non-local disruptions in thought.
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