Sunny Tang

Psychiatrist | Scientist | Academic Research Mom | Schizophrenia | Psychosis | Computational Psychiatry | Natural Language Processing | Views my own

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So long, X! I'm consolidating my social media presence and planning to no longer actively post here. Please follow me on @LinkedIn:
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Can we automate clinical assessment of thought disorder by finetuning an #LLM? Come find out at our #ACNP2026 poster this evening (Tue) #12!

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Shhhhh! I know you're not supposed to choose favorites as a PI, but I might be attending #ACNP2026 with my favorite @STANGlab member 🥰🤪🤩.

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This work was funded and completed by North Shore Therapeutics, a startup company I co-founded. Really proud of our team: @MoeinForoughi, @recoverWithCBT, @DocOTNY, @sarahberretta, @ukeleily, @johnmkaneny, Ed Yoon, and Bill Cronin... 5/5
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#NewPaperAlert 😎! We developed a prototype for an Augmented Reality (#AR) smartphone app (NST-SPARK) that delivers recovery-oriented cognitive therapy targeting negative symptoms of schizophrenia and completed a preliminary study... 1/5
https://t.co/qWjTKf5o8z

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We observed small shifts in defeatist beliefs and self-esteem in the intended directions. More impressively, at 1-week follow-up, the overwhelming majority of participants (90%) reported making progress in at least one of the real-life tasks they had identified... 4/5

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@_kabro_ @NorthwellHealth So glad to have you on board @_kabro_ !

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Congrats to our coauthors! @stellacong1, Aarush Mehta, @amirhnikzad, @sarahberretta, @ukeleily, @mark_liberman. Research conducted at @zhhresearch @NorthwellHealth and @Penn. 5/5

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New paper alert! Check out our new manuscript in @SchizRes Cognition, led by @cho_sunghye. Here we used automated speech and language analysis to compare verbal fluency responses from people with psychosis, depression, and healthy controls. 1/5
https://t.co/aHFjxjlV7V

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And also distinctive patterns for latency, whereas pause was similar between SSD and depression. 4/5

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Grateful to the press team at @NorthwellHealth for the lovely feature on my recent R01! Thanks for doing so much to raise the visibility of our science. @zhhresearch
https://t.co/rY3GyFk7cB

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I'm saddened this morning by the death of Jane Goodall. Growing up as a little girl in the 90's, she was one of two women scientists (+Marie Curie) who had a real presence as role models. I feel very grateful that now, there are so many more.
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To the amazing program officers and staff at @NIMHgov and across the whole @NIH — thank you for your hard work! You guys are my heroes.

NIH races to spend its 2025 grant money — but fewer projects win funding https://t.co/TJ6NGfqsbK

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Congrats to Aarush Mehta from our lab on his first first-author publication! He started working with us as a high school student and is now a senior at @stonybrooku. Thanks to coauthors: @amirhnikzad @stellacong1 @cho_sunghye Sameer Pradhan. @zhhresearch 4/4

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Glad to share our new article out in @CogNPsychiatry! We assessed relationships between symptoms and sentiment in speech during picture descriptions from people with psychosis across 2 cohorts and 2 timepoints... 1/4
https://t.co/toCpmMbJAM

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A negative relationship between Happiness and Thought Disturbance and a positive relationship between Anger and Hostile Suspiciousness were replicated across samples... 3/4