An agenda for symptom-based research
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Closed-Loop Neurostimulation for Biomarker-Driven, Personalized Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder
Published on: July 7, 2023
William Fleeson1, R Michael Furr, Elizabeth Mayfield Arnold
1Department of Psychology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA. fleesonw@wfu.edu
Abstract:
The network approach proposed by Cramer et al. suggests fascinating new directions of research on mental disorders. Research is needed to find evidence for the causal power of symptoms, to examine symptoms thoroughly, to investigate individual differences in edge strength, to discover etiological processes for each symptom, and to determine whether and why symptoms cohere into distinct mental disorders.
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