Revisiting the theoretical and methodological foundations of depression measurement

EI Fried, JK Flake, DJ Robinaugh - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2022 - nature.com
Depressive disorders are among the leading causes of global disease burden, but there has
been limited progress in understanding the causes of and treatments for these disorders. In …

Moving forward: Challenges and directions for psychopathological network theory and methodology

EI Fried, AOJ Cramer - Perspectives on Psychological …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Since the introduction of mental disorders as networks of causally interacting symptoms, this
novel framework has received considerable attention. The past years have resulted in over …

[HTML][HTML] An empathy-driven, conversational artificial intelligence agent (Wysa) for digital mental well-being: real-world data evaluation mixed-methods study

B Inkster, S Sarda, V Subramanian - JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 2018 - mhealth.jmir.org
Background: A World Health Organization 2017 report stated that major depression affects
almost 5% of the human population. Major depression is associated with impaired …

Social media and depression symptoms: A network perspective.

G Aalbers, RJ McNally, A Heeren… - Journal of …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Passive social media use (PSMU)—for example, scrolling through social media news feeds—
has been associated with depression symptoms. It is unclear, however, if PSMU causes …

Can network analysis transform psychopathology?

RJ McNally - Behaviour research and therapy, 2016 - Elsevier
Experimental psychopathology has been the primary path to gaining causal knowledge
about variables maintaining mental disorders. Yet a radically different approach to …

Network analysis of depression and anxiety symptom relationships in a psychiatric sample

C Beard, AJ Millner, MJC Forgeard, EI Fried… - Psychological …, 2016 - cambridge.org
BackgroundResearchers have studied psychological disorders extensively from a common
cause perspective, in which symptoms are treated as independent indicators of an …

The 52 symptoms of major depression: Lack of content overlap among seven common depression scales

EI Fried - Journal of affective disorders, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Depression severity is assessed in numerous research disciplines, ranging
from the social sciences to genetics, and used as a dependent variable, predictor, covariate …

What are'good'depression symptoms? Comparing the centrality of DSM and non-DSM symptoms of depression in a network analysis

EI Fried, S Epskamp, RM Nesse, F Tuerlinckx… - Journal of affective …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Background The symptoms for Major Depression (MD) defined in the DSM-5 differ
markedly from symptoms assessed in common rating scales, and the empirical question …

Association of symptom network structure with the course of depression

C van Borkulo, L Boschloo, D Borsboom… - JAMA …, 2015 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a heterogeneous condition in terms of
symptoms, course, and underlying disease mechanisms. Current classifications do not …

Depression sum-scores don't add up: why analyzing specific depression symptoms is essential

EI Fried, RM Nesse - BMC medicine, 2015 - Springer
Most measures of depression severity are based on the number of reported symptoms, and
threshold scores are often used to classify individuals as healthy or depressed. This method …