A network view on psychiatric disorders: network clusters of symptoms as elementary syndromes of psychopathology.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The vast number of psychopathological syndromes that can be observed in clinical practice can be described in terms of a limited number of elementary syndromes that are differentially expressed. Previous attempts to identify elementary syndromes have shown limitations that have slowed progress in the taxonomy of psychiatric disorders.

Aim

To examine the ability of network community detection (NCD) to identify elementary syndromes of psychopathology and move beyond the limitations of current classification methods in psychiatry.

Methods

192 patients with unselected mental disorders were tested on the Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale (CPRS). Principal component analysis (PCA) was performed on the bootstrapped correlation matrix of symptom score

SUBMITTER: Goekoop R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4245101 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature