Your words may predict your future mental health

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May 24, 2016 Today’s TED Talk Your words may predict your future mental health 12:14 minutes · TED2016 Can the way you speak and write today predict your future mental state, even the onset of psychosis? In this fascinating talk, neuroscientist Mariano Sigman reflects on ancient Greece and the origins of introspection to investigate how our words hint at our inner lives and details a word-mapping algorithm that could predict the development of schizophrenia. "We may be seeing in the future a very different form of mental health," Sigman says, "based on objective, quantitative and automated analysis of the words we write, of the words we say." Watch now »   Playlist of the Day The future of medicine Take this tour of medicine's future with some of the trailblazing doctors charting its course. Once you've seen a transplantable human kidney created from a 3D printer, almost anything is imaginable ... Watch » 12 talks · Total run time 2:40:37 TUNE IN TO PBS ON MONDAY, MAY 30 Join us on Facebook Follow us @TEDTalks

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