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Language&Medicine

About Language&Medicine Zürich

Language&Medicine is a newly founded competence centre bringing together interdisciplinary researchers and clinicians of the University of Zurich and the University Hospitals who share an interest in language in medical contexts, for instance voice, speech and language plasticity, linguistic mirrors of pathology and challenges of innovative health communication in the digital age. Our vision is that by crossing disciplinary, methodological and paradigmatic boundaries in this field, there is an enormous potential to be unlocked both in terms of theoretical insights into the functioning of language, speech, hearing and communication as well as in terms of concrete applications that improve individual and public health.

Pursuing this vision, we are currently building up a network of researchers, clinicians, and other interested parties (for instance lay researchers/experts by experience, patient organisations etc.), organising Events and seeking to establish sustainable research structures for Language&Medicine at the UZH. 

This website makes visible existing research in Language&Medicine at the UZH and is intended to link-up people with an interest in this area and thus to inspire new collaborations and ideas for projects. If you are interested in becoming a member, please get in touch with the Coordinators or join us at one of our next Events!

Examples of L&M's Areas of Competence

Weiterführende Informationen

 Language in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

Anke Maatz & Yvonne Ilg et al.: Let's talk about it! But how? On the verbalisation of mental illness experience

Anke Maatz, Yvonne Ilg & Nikola Biller-Andorno: Sharing stories of mental illness - investigating communicative strategies and developing innovative online resources

Birgit Kleim et al.: MULTICAST (A-MULTIdisCiplinary-Approach-to-prediction-and-treatment-of-Suicidality)

Philipp Homan et al.: DELTA-LANG: The Delta of Language

Heiko Hausendorf et al.: How important is presence? Psychotherapy and the psychotherapeutic relationship in the transition from co-presence to telepresence

Florian Riese & Nathalie Giroud et al.: The association between language and cognition in older adults with major depression

Voice Pathology and Language

Volker Dellwo: Dynamics of Indexical Information in Speech and its Role in Speech Communication and Speaker recognition

Volker Dellwo: Workpackages Accomodation and Speech Production

Lei He & Meike Brockmann-Bauser: Untangling the relationship between voice and face: A cross-modal approach to talker identity

Meike Brockmann-Bauser: Voice onset time as an indicator of increased laryngeal tension in hyperfunctional voice disorders

Large Language Models in Medicine

Nikola Biller-Andorno & Gerold Schneider: Mind the Patient Lab

Nikola Biller-Andorno & Gerold Schneider: DIPEx – Swiss Database of Individual Patients’ Experiences

Gerold Schneider: Towards a Voice-Based Chatbot for Language Learners (ChaLL)

Philipp Homan et al.: DELTA-LANG: The Delta of Language

Communication in Clinical Settings

Susanne Wegener, Anke Maatz, Yvonne Ilg, et al.: ComPAIN - Communication about pain in patients with headache

Christina Haag, Viktor von Wyl: My life with MS

Sewoenam Chachu: Health Communication between Ghanaian Migrants and Health Workers in Switzerland

Vanesa Rodrigues Tembras: Visiting the Doctor in a Foreign Language: Galicians at the Canton of Zürich Pilot Study on Language Use in Healthcare

Hearing Disorders and Tinnitus

Martin Meyer & Tobias Kleinjung: Audiometric and Cognitive Assessment in Tinnitus and Control Subjects

Tobias Kleinjung: Acoustic stimulation with tDCS for tinnitus patients

Tobias Kleinjung: Tinnitus & Neurofeedback

Nathalie Giroud: Preventing age-related cognitive decline: The role of hearing loss in dementia 

Martin Meyer & Nathalie Giroud: Innovation Group Language, Aging and Central Hearing Disorders (LACH)  at Healthy Longevity Innovation Hub 

Overcoming Hearing Impairment

Alexis Hervais-Adelman: Exploring audio-motor integration: a novel approach to overcoming hearing impairment

Basil Preisig: Exploiting the potential of neural attentional control to overcome hearing impairment

Martin Meyer, Nathalie Giroud & Tobias Kleinjung: Lip reading training via mobile phone app: A step towards interventions against hearing loss

Nathalie Giroud: Benefits of ACT! for hearing rehabiliation and cognitive functioning in older adults

Nathalie Giroud: Vision and hearing in residential aged care - longitudinal findings from the Swiss RAI dataset

Linguistic Markers to improve Medical Diagnostics

Birgit Kleim et al.: MULTICAST (A-MULTIdisCiplinary-Approach-to-prediction-and-treatment-of-Suicidality)

Susanne Wegener, Anke Maatz, Yvonne Ilg, et al.: ComPAIN - Communication about pain in patients with headache

Medical Communication and Multilingualism

Sewoenam Chachu: Health Communication between Ghanaian Migrants and Health Workers in Switzerland

Vanesa Rodrigues Tembras: Visiting the Doctor in a Foreign Language: Galicians at the Canton of Zürich Pilot Study on Language Use in Healthcare

The lists provided above are not exhaustive and we are looking forward to include new projects and topics!

Weiterführende Informationen

Nathalie

Co-Director Nathalie Giroud

Johannes

Co-Director Johannes Kabatek