Speech Signals of Depression, What Time to Eat?, Monet Haze

Today you’ll learn about how we are able to measure depression through speech patterns, a recent study that explores whether or not eating at a certain time of day affects weight, and how researchers used paintings to assess pollution levels during the industrial revolution. 

Speech Signals of Depression

• “New research indicates signs of depression can be detected in speech patterns” by Laura Staloch
  • https://www.psypost.org/2023/01/new-research-indicates-signs-of-depression-can-be-detected-in-speech-patterns-65196
• “Detecting subtle signs of depression with automated speech analysis in a non-clinical sample” by Alexandra König et al.
  • https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-022-04475-0

What Time to Eat? 

• “Association of Eating and Sleeping Intervals With Weight Change Over Time: The Daily24 Cohort” by Di Zhao et al.
  • https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/JAHA.122.026484#d2071692e1
• “Total Meals, Not Timing, Drives Long-term Body Weight Changes” by Todd Neale
  • https://www.tctmd.com/news/total-meals-not-timing-drives-long-term-body-weight-changes

Monet Haze

• “That dreamy haze in Monet’s impressionist paintings? Air pollution, study says.” By Kasha Patel
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/01/31/air-pollution-impressionism-monet-turner/?utm_source=reddit.com
• “Paintings by Turner and Monet depict trends in 19th century air pollution” by Anna Lea Albright and Peter Huybers
  • https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2219118120
• “Garden at Sainte-Adresse” by The MET
  • https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437133

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