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  • Psychiatry
  • Computational Psychiatry
  • Pharmacogenomics

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  • Maintenance therapy is crucial for reducing morbidity and mortality in bipolar disorder.
  • Predicting lithium responsiveness (LR) can optimize patient treatment outcomes.
  • Machine learning offers a novel approach to identify predictors of LR.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the predictability of lithium responsiveness (LR) using clinical markers in a large international cohort.
  • To develop and validate a machine learning model for classifying LR.
  • To identify key clinical predictors associated with lithium treatment response.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a large dataset (n=1266) of lithium-treated bipolar disorder patients from seven international sites.
  • Trained a random forest machine learning model to predict LR based on the Alda scale.
  • Included 180 clinical predictors, focusing on clinical course and absence of rapid cycling.

Main Results:

  • Achieved a predictable LR with an area under the ROC curve of 0.80 and Cohen kappa of 0.46.
  • Demonstrated a low false-positive rate (specificity 0.91).
  • Identified clinical course features and absence of rapid cycling as consistently informative predictors.

Conclusions:

  • Clinical data can predict out-of-sample LR to a clinically relevant degree.
  • Substantial between-site heterogeneity in feature importance necessitates further investigation.
  • Future research should focus on improving true positive classification and external validation.