Matthew Cotter

1 INTRODUCTION The dramatic increase in the prevalence of childhood obesity has enormous public health implications and may result in a reduced life span of the current generation of children.1 Attributed to the increasing prevalence of childhood obesity, type 2 diabetes (T2D) is being diagnosed in a growing number of young children.2 Obesity in childhood puts children at an increased risk of obesity in adulthood as well as severe health complications associated with obesity such as T2D,...

Abstract Many individuals with psychotic symptoms have less complex language than healthy individuals. Word etymology is a lexical feature that has not yet been studied in clinical populations, but among healthy individuals, words of Old French origin are chosen over Germanic-origin words to convey formality (e.g. “inquire” vs. “ask”). Differences in language complexity among individuals with psychotic symptoms may relate to differences in etymological content in speech.