Research by staff affiliated to St. Vincent's Hospital Fairview

Recent Submissions

  • The role and function of the psychiatric nurse in clinical practice: a research report.

    Cowman, Seamus; Farrelly, Mary; Gilheaney, Patricia; St Vincent's Hospital Fairview; Dublin City University. School of Nursing. (St Vincent's Hospital Fairview and the School of Nursing Dublin City University., 1997)
  • Prevalence of psychotic symptoms in childhood and adolescence: a systematic review and meta-analysis of population-based studies.

    Kelleher, I; Connor, D; Clarke, M C; Devlin, N; Harley, M; Cannon, M; Department of Psychiatry, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and St Joseph's Adolescent Unit, St Vincent's Hospital Fairview, Dublin, Ireland. iankelleher@rcsi.ie (2012-09)
    Psychotic symptoms occur more frequently in the general population than psychotic disorder and index risk for psychopathology. Multiple studies have reported on the prevalence of these symptoms using self-report questionnaires or clinical interviews but there is a lack of consensus about the prevalence of psychotic symptoms among children and adolescents.
  • Acoustic and temporal analysis of speech: A potential biomarker for schizophrenia.

    Rapcan, Viliam; D'Arcy, Shona; Yeap, Sherlyn; Afzal, Natasha; Thakore, Jogin; Reilly, Richard B; Trinity Centre for Bioengineering, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. rapcanv@tcd.ie (2010-11)
    Currently, there are no established objective biomarkers for the diagnosis or monitoring of schizophrenia. It has been previously reported that there are notable qualitative differences in the speech of schizophrenics. The objective of this study was to determine whether a quantitative acoustic and temporal analysis of speech may be a potential biomarker for schizophrenia. In this study, 39 schizophrenic patients and 18 controls were digitally recorded reading aloud an emotionally neutral text passage from a children's story. Temporal, energy and vocal pitch features were automatically extracted from the recordings. A classifier based on linear discriminant analysis was employed to differentiate between controls and schizophrenic subjects. Processing the recordings with the algorithm developed demonstrated that it is possible to differentiate schizophrenic patients and controls with a classification accuracy of 79.4% (specificity=83.6%, sensitivity=75.2%) based on speech pause related parameters extracted from recordings carried out in standard office (non-studio) environments. Acoustic and temporal analysis of speech may represent a potential tool for the objective analysis in schizophrenia.