The Detection of Malingering: A New Tool to Identify Made-Up Depression.

ABSTRACT: Major depression is a high-prevalence mental disease with major socio-economic impact, for both the direct and the indirect costs. Major depression symptoms can be faked or exaggerated in order to obtain economic compensation from insurance companies. Critically, depression is potentially easily malingered, as the symptoms that characterize this psychiatric disorder are not difficult to emulate. Although some tools to assess malingering of psychiatric conditions are already available, they are principally based on self-reporting and are thus easily faked. In this paper, we propose a new method to automatically detect the simulation of depression, which is based on the analysis of mouse movements while the patient is engaged in a double-choice computerized task, responding to simple and com

SUBMITTER: Monaro M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6002526 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature