In most cases, a flat, emotionless tone is a career killer; when Arnold Schwarzenegger uses it to deliver “I’ll be back” in “The Terminator,” it’s a genius character choice. Top-level actors ...

Objective measurement of psychiatric disorders has long proved challenging. Yet, there is ample evidence that analysis of speech patterns can accurately diagnose depression and psychosis, measure ...

Researchers are increasingly finding that subtle shifts in everyday conversation can flag trouble in the brain long before classic memory problems appear. Instead of relying only on paper-and-pencil ...

Speech rate and word-finding difficulties, including pausing and use of fillers such as “um” and “uh,” were associated with changes in executive function across the adult lifespan in a new study. Jed ...

A new analysis suggests that posts in hate speech communities on the social media website Reddit share speech-pattern similarities with posts in Reddit communities for certain psychiatric disorders.