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Siddique F, Lee BK. Predicting adolescent psychopathology from early life factors: A machine learning tutorial. GLOBAL EPIDEMIOLOGY 2024; 8:100161. [PMID: 39279846 PMCID: PMC11402309 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloepi.2024.100161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2024] [Revised: 07/10/2024] [Accepted: 08/27/2024] [Indexed: 09/18/2024] Open
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Objective The successful implementation and interpretation of machine learning (ML) models in epidemiological studies can be challenging without an extensive programming background. We provide a didactic example of machine learning for risk prediction in this study by determining whether early life factors could be useful for predicting adolescent psychopathology. Methods In total, 9643 adolescents ages 9-10 from the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study were included in ML analysis to predict high Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) scores (i.e., t-scores ≥ 60). ML models were constructed using a series of predictor combinations (prenatal, family history, sociodemographic) across 5 different algorithms. We assessed ML performance through sensitivity, specificity, F1-score, and area under the curve (AUC) metrics. Results A total of 1267 adolescents (13.1 %) were found to have high CBCL scores. The best performing algorithms were elastic net and gradient boosted trees. The best performing elastic net models included prenatal and family history factors (Sensitivity 0.654, Specificity 0.713; AUC 0.742, F1-score 0.401) and prenatal, family, history, and sociodemographic factors (Sensitivity 0.668, Specificity 0.704; AUC 0.745, F1-score 0.402). Across all 5 ML algorithms, family history factors (e.g., either parent had nervous breakdowns, trouble holding jobs/fights/police encounters, and counseling for mental issues) and sociodemographic covariates (e.g., maternal age, child's sex, caregiver income and caregiver education) tended to be better predictors of adolescent psychopathology. The most important prenatal predictors were unplanned pregnancy, birth complications, and pregnancy complications. Conclusion Our results suggest that inclusion of prenatal, family history, and sociodemographic factors in ML models can generate moderately accurate predictions of adolescent psychopathology. Issues associated with model overfitting, hyperparameter tuning, and system seed setting should be considered throughout model training, testing, and validation. Future early risk predictions models may improve with the inclusion of additional relevant covariates.
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- Faizaan Siddique
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America
- Conestoga High School, Berwyn, PA, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America
- Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Skorobogatov K, De Picker L, Wu CL, Foiselle M, Richard JR, Boukouaci W, Bouassida J, Laukens K, Meysman P, le Corvoisier P, Barau C, Morrens M, Tamouza R, Leboyer M. Immune-based Machine learning Prediction of Diagnosis and Illness State in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder. Brain Behav Immun 2024; 122:422-432. [PMID: 39151650 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2024.08.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2024] [Revised: 07/29/2024] [Accepted: 08/08/2024] [Indexed: 08/19/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder frequently face significant delay in diagnosis, leading to being missed or misdiagnosed in early stages. Both disorders have also been associated with trait and state immune abnormalities. Recent machine learning-based studies have shown encouraging results using diagnostic biomarkers in predictive models, but few have focused on immune-based markers. Our main objective was to develop supervised machine learning models to predict diagnosis and illness state in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder using only a panel of peripheral kynurenine metabolites and cytokines. METHODS The cross-sectional I-GIVE cohort included hospitalized acute bipolar patients (n = 205), stable bipolar outpatients (n = 116), hospitalized acute schizophrenia patients (n = 111), stable schizophrenia outpatients (n = 75) and healthy controls (n = 185). Serum kynurenine metabolites, namely tryptophan (TRP), kynurenine (KYN), kynurenic acid (KA), quinaldic acid (QUINA), xanthurenic acid (XA), quinolinic acid (QUINO) and picolinic acid (PICO) were quantified using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), while V-plex Human Cytokine Assays were used to measure cytokines (interleukin-6 (IL-6), IL-8, IL-17, IL-12/IL23-P40, tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-ɑ), interferon-gamma (IFN-γ)). Supervised machine learning models were performed using JMP Pro 17.0.0. We compared a primary analysis using nested cross-validation to a split set as sensitivity analysis. Post-hoc, we re-ran the models using only the significant features to obtain the key markers. RESULTS The models yielded a good Area Under the Curve (AUC) (0.804, Positive Prediction Value (PPV) = 86.95; Negative Prediction Value (NPV) = 54.61) for distinguishing all patients from controls. This implies that a positive test is highly accurate in identifying the patients, but a negative test is inconclusive. Both schizophrenia patients and bipolar patients could each be separated from controls with a good accuracy (SCZ AUC 0.824; BD AUC 0.802). Overall, increased levels of IL-6, TNF-ɑ and PICO and decreased levels of IFN-γ and QUINO were predictive for an individual being classified as a patient. Classification of acute versus stable patients reached a fair AUC of 0.713. The differentiation between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder yielded a poor AUC of 0.627. CONCLUSIONS This study highlights the potential of using immune-based measures to build predictive classification models in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, with IL-6, TNF-ɑ, IFN-γ, QUINO and PICO as key candidates. While machine learning models successfully distinguished schizophrenia and bipolar disorder from controls, the challenges in differentiating schizophrenic from bipolar patients likely reflect shared immunological pathways by the both disorders and confounding by a larger state-specific effect. Larger multi-centric studies and multi-domain models are needed to enhance reliability and translation into clinic.
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- Katrien Skorobogatov
- Scientific Initiative for Neuropsychiatric and Psychopharmacological Studies (SINAPS), University Psychiatric Hospital Campus Duffel (UPCD), Rooienberg 19, 2570 Duffel, Belgium; Collaborative Antwerp Psychiatric Research Institute (CAPRI), University of Antwerp, Campus Drie Eiken, S.003, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium.
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- Scientific Initiative for Neuropsychiatric and Psychopharmacological Studies (SINAPS), University Psychiatric Hospital Campus Duffel (UPCD), Rooienberg 19, 2570 Duffel, Belgium; Collaborative Antwerp Psychiatric Research Institute (CAPRI), University of Antwerp, Campus Drie Eiken, S.003, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium
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- Université Paris Est Créteil (UPEC), Inserm U955, IMRB Translational Neuropsychiatry Laboratory, AP-HP, Hôpitaux Universitaires H Mondor, DMU IMPACT, FHU ADAPT, Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France
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- Université Paris Est Créteil (UPEC), Inserm U955, IMRB Translational Neuropsychiatry Laboratory, AP-HP, Hôpitaux Universitaires H Mondor, DMU IMPACT, FHU ADAPT, Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France
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- Université Paris Est Créteil (UPEC), Inserm U955, IMRB Translational Neuropsychiatry Laboratory, AP-HP, Hôpitaux Universitaires H Mondor, DMU IMPACT, FHU ADAPT, Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France
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- Université Paris Est Créteil (UPEC), Inserm U955, IMRB Translational Neuropsychiatry Laboratory, AP-HP, Hôpitaux Universitaires H Mondor, DMU IMPACT, FHU ADAPT, Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France
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- Université Paris Est Créteil (UPEC), Inserm U955, IMRB Translational Neuropsychiatry Laboratory, AP-HP, Hôpitaux Universitaires H Mondor, DMU IMPACT, FHU ADAPT, Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France
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- Biomedical Informatics Research Center Antwerp (BIOMINA), University of Antwerp, Campus Middelheim, M.G.111, Middelheimlaan 1, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium; Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Antwerp, Campus Middelheim, M.G.105, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Biomedical Informatics Research Center Antwerp (BIOMINA), University of Antwerp, Campus Middelheim, M.G.111, Middelheimlaan 1, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium; Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Antwerp, Campus Middelheim, M.G.105, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Inserm, Centre d'Investigation Clinique 1430, AP-HP, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Université Paris Est Créteil, Faculté de Médecine de Créteil 8, Rue Du Général Sarrail 94010, Créteil, France
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- Plateforme de Ressources Biologiques, Hôpital Henri Mondor, 51 Avenue due Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, 94010 Créteil, France
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- Scientific Initiative for Neuropsychiatric and Psychopharmacological Studies (SINAPS), University Psychiatric Hospital Campus Duffel (UPCD), Rooienberg 19, 2570 Duffel, Belgium; Collaborative Antwerp Psychiatric Research Institute (CAPRI), University of Antwerp, Campus Drie Eiken, S.003, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium
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- Université Paris Est Créteil (UPEC), Inserm U955, IMRB Translational Neuropsychiatry Laboratory, AP-HP, Hôpitaux Universitaires H Mondor, DMU IMPACT, FHU ADAPT, Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France
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- Université Paris Est Créteil (UPEC), Inserm U955, IMRB Translational Neuropsychiatry Laboratory, AP-HP, Hôpitaux Universitaires H Mondor, DMU IMPACT, FHU ADAPT, Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France
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Jankowsky K, Zimmermann J, Jaeger U, Mestel R, Schroeders U. First impressions count: Therapists' impression on patients' motivation and helping alliance predicts psychotherapy dropout. Psychother Res 2024:1-13. [PMID: 39383511 DOI: 10.1080/10503307.2024.2411985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2023] [Revised: 07/31/2024] [Accepted: 09/24/2024] [Indexed: 10/11/2024] Open
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OBJECTIVE With meta-analytically estimated rates of about 25%, dropout in psychotherapies is a major concern for individuals, clinicians, and the healthcare system at large. To be able to counteract dropout in psychotherapy, accurate insights about its predictors are needed. METHOD We compared logistic regression models with two machine learning algorithms (elastic net regressions and gradient boosting machines) in the prediction of therapy dropout in two large inpatient samples (N = 1,691 and N = 12,473) using baseline and initial process variables reported by patients and therapists. RESULTS Predictive accuracies of the two machine learning algorithms were similar and higher than for logistic regressions: Therapy dropout could be predicted with an AUC of .73 and .83 for Sample 1 and 2, respectively. The initial evaluation of patients' motivation and the therapeutic alliance rated by the respective therapist were the most important predictors of dropout. CONCLUSIONS Therapy dropout in naturalistic inpatient settings can be predicted to a considerable degree by using baseline indicators and therapists' first impressions. Feature selection via regularization leads to higher predictive performances whereas non-linear or interaction effects are dispensable. The most promising point of intervention to reduce therapy dropouts seems to be patients' motivation and the therapeutic alliance.
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Slot MIE, Urquijo Castro MF, Winter-van Rossum I, van Hell HH, Dwyer D, Dazzan P, Maat A, De Haan L, Crespo-Facorro B, Glenthøj BY, Lawrie SM, McDonald C, Gruber O, van Amelsvoort T, Arango C, Kircher T, Nelson B, Galderisi S, Weiser M, Sachs G, Kirschner M, Fleischhacker WW, McGuire P, Koutsouleris N, Kahn RS. Multivariable prediction of functional outcome after first-episode psychosis: a crossover validation approach in EUFEST and PSYSCAN. SCHIZOPHRENIA (HEIDELBERG, GERMANY) 2024; 10:89. [PMID: 39375356 PMCID: PMC11458815 DOI: 10.1038/s41537-024-00505-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2024] [Accepted: 09/04/2024] [Indexed: 10/09/2024]
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Several multivariate prognostic models have been published to predict outcomes in patients with first episode psychosis (FEP), but it remains unclear whether those predictions generalize to independent populations. Using a subset of demographic and clinical baseline predictors, we aimed to develop and externally validate different models predicting functional outcome after a FEP in the context of a schizophrenia-spectrum disorder (FES), based on a previously published cross-validation and machine learning pipeline. A crossover validation approach was adopted in two large, international cohorts (EUFEST, n = 338, and the PSYSCAN FES cohort, n = 226). Scores on the Global Assessment of Functioning scale (GAF) at 12 month follow-up were dichotomized to differentiate between poor (GAF current < 65) and good outcome (GAF current ≥ 65). Pooled non-linear support vector machine (SVM) classifiers trained on the separate cohorts identified patients with a poor outcome with cross-validated balanced accuracies (BAC) of 65-66%, but BAC dropped substantially when the models were applied to patients from a different FES cohort (BAC = 50-56%). A leave-site-out analysis on the merged sample yielded better performance (BAC = 72%), highlighting the effect of combining data from different study designs to overcome calibration issues and improve model transportability. In conclusion, our results indicate that validation of prediction models in an independent sample is essential in assessing the true value of the model. Future external validation studies, as well as attempts to harmonize data collection across studies, are recommended.
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Grants
- 603196 EC | EC Seventh Framework Programm | FP7 Health (FP7-HEALTH - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Health)
- 603196 EC | EC Seventh Framework Programm | FP7 Health (FP7-HEALTH - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Health)
- Professor Birte Y. Glenthøj has been the leader of a Lundbeck Foundation Centre of Excellence for Clinical Intervention and Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research (CINS) (January 2009 – December 2021), which was partially financed by an independent grant from the Lundbeck Foundation based on international review and partially financed by the Mental Health Services in the Capital Region of Denmark, the University of Copenhagen, and other foundations. All grants are the property of the Mental Health Services in the Capital Region of Denmark and administrated by them.
- Professor Silvana Galderisi received advisory board/consultant fees from the following drug companies: Angelini, Boehringer Ingelheim Italia, Gedeon Richter-Recordati, Janssen Pharmaceutica NV and ROVI. SG received honoraria/expenses from the following drug companies: Angelini, Gedeon Richter-Recordati, Janssen Australia and New Zealand, Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, Janssen-Cilag, Lundbeck A/S, Lundbeck Italia, Otsuka, Recordati Pharmaceuticals, ROVI, Sunovion Pharmaceuticals.
- EUFEST was funded by the European Group for Research in Schizophrenia (EGRIS) with grants from AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Sanofi Aventis. Professor Wolfgang Fleischhacker has received grants from Lundbeck and Otsuka and lecture honoraria from Sumitomo-Pharma and Forum Medizinische Fortbildung.
- Professor Nikolaos Koutsouleris received honoraria for talks presented at education meetings organized by Otsuka/Lundbeck.
- EUFEST was funded by the European Group for Research in Schizophrenia (EGRIS) with grants from AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Sanofi Aventis.
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- Margot I E Slot
- Department of Psychiatry, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Orygen, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, De Crespigny Park, Denmark 458 Hill, SE5 8AF, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Psychiatry, Department Early Psychosis, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital, IDIVAL. School of Medicine, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
- CIBERSAM, Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red Salud Mental, Madrid, Spain
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- Centre for Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research (CNSR) & Centre for Clinical Intervention and Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research (CINS), Mental Health Centre Glostrup, Glostrup, Denmark
- University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Department of Clinical Medicine, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, EH10 5HF, UK
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- Centre for Neuroimaging & Cognitive Genomics (NICOG), NCBES Galway Neuroscience Centre, National University of Ireland Galway, H91 TK33, Galway, Ireland
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- Section for Experimental Psychopathology and Neuroimaging, Department of General Psychiatry, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, IiSGM, CIBERSAM, ISCIII, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Marburg, Rudolf-Bultmann-Straße 8, D-35039, Marburg, Germany
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- Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Orygen, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Mental and Physical Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Largo Madonna delle Grazie, 80138, Naples, Italy
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- Zachai Department of Psychiatry, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, 52621, Israel
- Tel Aviv University School of Medicine, Ramat Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, 1090, Vienna, Austria
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- Division of Adult Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Psychiatric Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich, Germany
- Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, De Crespigny Park, Denmark 458 Hill, London, SE5 8AF, UK
- Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York, USA.
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Ciharova M, Amarti K, van Breda W, Peng X, Lorente-Català R, Funk B, Hoogendoorn M, Koutsouleris N, Fusar-Poli P, Karyotaki E, Cuijpers P, Riper H. Use of Machine Learning Algorithms Based on Text, Audio, and Video Data in the Prediction of Anxiety and Posttraumatic Stress in General and Clinical Populations: A Systematic Review. Biol Psychiatry 2024; 96:519-531. [PMID: 38866173 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2024.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2023] [Revised: 05/24/2024] [Accepted: 06/04/2024] [Indexed: 06/14/2024]
Abstract
Research in machine learning (ML) algorithms using natural behavior (i.e., text, audio, and video data) suggests that these techniques could contribute to personalization in psychology and psychiatry. However, a systematic review of the current state of the art is missing. Moreover, individual studies often target ML experts who may overlook potential clinical implications of their findings. In a narrative accessible to mental health professionals, we present a systematic review conducted in 5 psychology and 2 computer science databases. We included 128 studies that assessed the predictive power of ML algorithms using text, audio, and/or video data in the prediction of anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder. Most studies (n = 87) were aimed at predicting anxiety, while the remainder (n = 41) focused on posttraumatic stress disorder. They were mostly published since 2019 in computer science journals and tested algorithms using text (n = 72) as opposed to audio or video. Studies focused mainly on general populations (n = 92) and less on laboratory experiments (n = 23) or clinical populations (n = 13). Methodological quality varied, as did reported metrics of the predictive power, hampering comparison across studies. Two-thirds of studies, which focused on both disorders, reported acceptable to very good predictive power (including high-quality studies only). The results of 33 studies were uninterpretable, mainly due to missing information. Research into ML algorithms using natural behavior is in its infancy but shows potential to contribute to diagnostics of mental disorders, such as anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder, in the future if standardization of methods, reporting of results, and research in clinical populations are improved.
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- Marketa Ciharova
- Department of Clinical, Neuro, and Developmental Psychology, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Black Dog Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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- Department of Clinical, Neuro, and Developmental Psychology, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical, Neuro, and Developmental Psychology, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Department of Methodology and Statistics, Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands
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- Department of Basic and Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain
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- Institute of Information Systems, Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany
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- Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health Group, Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom; Precision Psychiatry Group, Max Planck Institute, Munich, Germany; Section for Precision Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Section for Precision Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany; Early Psychosis: Interventions and Clinical-Detection (EPIC) Lab, Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom; Department of Brain and Behavioural Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy; OASIS Service, South London and the Maudsley National Health Service Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Clinical, Neuro, and Developmental Psychology, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; WHO Collaborating Center for Research and Dissemination of Psychological Interventions, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical, Neuro, and Developmental Psychology, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; WHO Collaborating Center for Research and Dissemination of Psychological Interventions, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Babeș-Bolyai University, International Institute for Psychotherapy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Clinical, Neuro, and Developmental Psychology, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Koutsouleris N, Fusar-Poli P. From Heterogeneity to Precision: Redefining Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Treatment of Mental Disorders. Biol Psychiatry 2024; 96:508-510. [PMID: 39232589 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2024.07.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2024] [Accepted: 07/17/2024] [Indexed: 09/06/2024]
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- Nikolaos Koutsouleris
- Section for Precision Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Centre, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany; Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, United Kingdom; Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany.
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- Section for Precision Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Centre, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany; Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, United Kingdom; Department of Brain and Behavioural Sciences, University of Pavia, Italy
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Radua J, Koutsouleris N. Ten Simple Rules for Using Machine Learning in Mental Health Research. Biol Psychiatry 2024; 96:511-513. [PMID: 37981177 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.11.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2023] [Revised: 11/16/2023] [Accepted: 11/16/2023] [Indexed: 11/21/2023]
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- Joaquim Radua
- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), CIBERSAM, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Section of Precision Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany; Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom; Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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Myers CE, Dave CV, Chesin MS, Marx BP, St Hill LM, Reddy V, Miller RB, King A, Interian A. Initial evaluation of a personalized advantage index to determine which individuals may benefit from mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for suicide prevention. Behav Res Ther 2024; 183:104637. [PMID: 39306938 DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2024.104637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2024] [Revised: 08/09/2024] [Accepted: 09/16/2024] [Indexed: 09/26/2024]
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OBJECTIVE Develop and evaluate a treatment matching algorithm to predict differential treatment response to Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for suicide prevention (MBCT-S) versus enhanced treatment-as-usual (eTAU). METHODS Analyses used data from Veterans at high-risk for suicide assigned to either MBCT-S (n = 71) or eTAU (n = 69) in a randomized clinical trial. Potential predictors (n = 55) included available demographic, clinical, and neurocognitive variables. Random forest models were used to predict risk of suicidal event (suicidal behaviors, or ideation resulting in hospitalization or emergency department visit) within 12 months following randomization, characterize the prediction, and develop a Personalized Advantage Index (PAI). RESULTS A slightly better prediction model emerged for MBCT-S (AUC = 0.70) than eTAU (AUC = 0.63). Important outcome predictors for participants in the MBCT-S arm included PTSD diagnosis, decisional efficiency on a neurocognitive task (Go/No-Go), prior-year mental health residential treatment, and non-suicidal self-injury. Significant predictors for participants in the eTAU arm included past-year acute psychiatric hospitalizations, past-year outpatient psychotherapy visits, past-year suicidal ideation severity, and attentional control (indexed by Stroop task). A moderation analysis showed that fewer suicidal events occurred among those randomized to their PAI-indicated optimal treatment. CONCLUSIONS PAI-guided treatment assignment may enhance suicide prevention outcomes. However, prior to real-world application, additional research is required to improve model accuracy and evaluate model generalization.
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- Catherine E Myers
- Research and Development Service, VA New Jersey Health Care System, East Orange, NJ, USA; Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, USA
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- Center for Pharmacoepidemiology and Treatment Science, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
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- Department of Psychology, William Paterson University, USA
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- National Center for PTSD, Behavioral Sciences Division at the VA Boston Health Care System, Boston, MA, USA; Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences, VA New Jersey Health Care System, Lyons, NJ, USA
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- Research and Development Service, VA New Jersey Health Care System, East Orange, NJ, USA
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- Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences, VA New Jersey Health Care System, Lyons, NJ, USA
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- Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences, VA New Jersey Health Care System, Lyons, NJ, USA
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- Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences, VA New Jersey Health Care System, Lyons, NJ, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA.
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Di Camillo F, Grimaldi DA, Cattarinussi G, Di Giorgio A, Locatelli C, Khuntia A, Enrico P, Brambilla P, Koutsouleris N, Sambataro F. Magnetic resonance imaging-based machine learning classification of schizophrenia spectrum disorders: a meta-analysis. Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2024. [PMID: 39290174 DOI: 10.1111/pcn.13736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2024] [Revised: 07/31/2024] [Accepted: 08/19/2024] [Indexed: 09/19/2024]
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BACKGROUND Recent advances in multivariate pattern recognition have fostered the search for reliable neuroimaging-based biomarkers in psychiatric conditions, including schizophrenia. These approaches consider the complex pattern of alterations in brain function and structure, overcoming the limitations of traditional univariate methods. To assess the reliability of neuroimaging-based biomarkers and the contribution of study characteristics in distinguishing individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorder (SSD) from healthy controls (HCs), we conducted a systematic review of the studies that used multivariate pattern recognition for this objective. METHODS We systematically searched PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science for studies on SSD classification using multivariate pattern analysis on magnetic resonance imaging data. We employed a bivariate random-effects meta-analytic model to explore the classification of sensitivity (SE) and specificity (SP) across studies while also evaluating the moderator effects of clinical and non-clinical variables. RESULTS A total of 119 studies (with 12,723 patients with SSD and 13,196 HCs) were identified. The meta-analysis estimated a SE of 79.1% (95% confidence interval [CI], 77.1%-81.0%) and a SP of 80.0% (95% CI, 77.8%-82.0%). In particular, the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale and the Global Assessment of Functioning scores, age, age of onset, duration of untreated psychosis, deep learning, algorithm type, features selection, and validation methods had significant effects on classification performance. CONCLUSIONS Multivariate pattern analysis reliably identifies neuroimaging-based biomarkers of SSD, achieving ∼80% SE and SP. Despite clinical heterogeneity, discernible brain modifications effectively differentiate SSD from HCs. Classification performance depends on patient-related and methodological factors crucial for the development, validation, and application of prospective models in clinical settings.
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- Fabio Di Camillo
- Department of Neuroscience (DNS), University of Padova, Padua, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience (DNS), University of Padova, Padua, Italy
- Padova Neuroscience Center, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
- Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Mental Health and Addictions, ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy
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- Department of Mental Health and Addictions, ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
- International Max Planck Research School for Translational Psychiatry (IMPRS-TP), Munich, Germany
- Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
- Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
- Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Fondazione IRCSS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
- Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Fondazione IRCSS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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- Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry, Munich University Hospital, Munich, Germany
- Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Neuroscience (DNS), University of Padova, Padua, Italy
- Padova Neuroscience Center, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
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Li Q, Song K, Feng T, Zhang J, Fang X. Machine learning identifies different related factors associated with depression and suicidal ideation in Chinese children and adolescents. J Affect Disord 2024; 361:24-35. [PMID: 38844165 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2024.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2023] [Revised: 04/04/2024] [Accepted: 06/02/2024] [Indexed: 06/11/2024]
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BACKGROUND Depression and suicidal ideation often co-occur in children and adolescents, yet they possess distinct characteristics. This study sought to identify the different related factors associated with depression and suicidal ideation. METHODS A nationwide cross-sectional survey collected data from Chinese children and adolescents aged 8 to 18 (N = 160,962; 48.91 % girls). The survey included inquiries about demographics, depression, suicidal ideation, anxiety, perceived stress, academic burnout, internet addiction, non-suicidal self-injury, bullying, and being bullied. Fifteen machine learning algorithms were conducted to identify the different related factors associated with depression and suicidal ideation. Additionally, we conducted external validation on an independent sample of 1,812,889 children and adolescents. RESULTS Our findings revealed seven related factors linked to depression and six associated with suicidal ideation, with average accuracy rates of 86.86 % and 85.82 %, respectively. For depression, the most influential factors were anxiety, perceived stress, academic burnout, internet addiction, non-suicidal self-injury, experience of bullying, and age. Similarly, anxiety, non-suicidal self-injury, perceived stress, internet addiction, academic burnout, and age emerged as paramount factors for suicidal ideation. Moreover, these related factors showed notable variations in their predictive capacities for depression and suicidal ideation across different subgroups. CONCLUSION Anxiety emerged as the predominant shared factor for both depression and suicidal ideation, whereas the other related factors displayed distinct predictive patterns for each condition. These findings highlight the critical need for tailored strategies from public mental health service providers and policymakers to address the pressing concerns of depression and suicidal ideation.
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- Qingyin Li
- Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Mind Data & Analysis Technology Co. Ltd, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
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- Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China; State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
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Spee BTM, Leder H, Mikuni J, Scharnowski F, Pelowski M, Steyrl D. Using machine learning to predict judgments on Western visual art along content-representational and formal-perceptual attributes. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0304285. [PMID: 39241039 PMCID: PMC11379394 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0304285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2023] [Accepted: 05/09/2024] [Indexed: 09/08/2024] Open
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Art research has long aimed to unravel the complex associations between specific attributes, such as color, complexity, and emotional expressiveness, and art judgments, including beauty, creativity, and liking. However, the fundamental distinction between attributes as inherent characteristics or features of the artwork and judgments as subjective evaluations remains an exciting topic. This paper reviews the literature of the last half century, to identify key attributes, and employs machine learning, specifically Gradient Boosted Decision Trees (GBDT), to predict 13 art judgments along 17 attributes. Ratings from 78 art novice participants were collected for 54 Western artworks. Our GBDT models successfully predicted 13 judgments significantly. Notably, judged creativity and disturbing/irritating judgments showed the highest predictability, with the models explaining 31% and 32% of the variance, respectively. The attributes emotional expressiveness, valence, symbolism, as well as complexity emerged as consistent and significant contributors to the models' performance. Content-representational attributes played a more prominent role than formal-perceptual attributes. Moreover, we found in some cases non-linear relationships between attributes and judgments with sudden inclines or declines around medium levels of the rating scales. By uncovering these underlying patterns and dynamics in art judgment behavior, our research provides valuable insights to advance the understanding of aesthetic experiences considering visual art, inform cultural practices, and inspire future research in the field of art appreciation.
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- Blanca T M Spee
- Vienna Cognitive Science Hub, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Center of Expertise for Parkinson & Movement Disorders, Department of Neurology, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Department of Cognition, Emotion and Methods in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Vienna Cognitive Science Hub, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Department of Cognition, Emotion and Methods in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Vienna Cognitive Science Hub, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Cognition, Emotion and Methods in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Vienna Cognitive Science Hub, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Department of Cognition, Emotion and Methods in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Cognition, Emotion and Methods in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Ostojic D, Lalousis PA, Donohoe G, Morris DW. The challenges of using machine learning models in psychiatric research and clinical practice. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 2024; 88:53-65. [PMID: 39232341 DOI: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2024.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2024] [Revised: 08/06/2024] [Accepted: 08/12/2024] [Indexed: 09/06/2024]
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To understand the complex nature of heterogeneous psychiatric disorders, scientists and clinicians are required to employ a wide range of clinical, endophenotypic, neuroimaging, genomic, and environmental data to understand the biological mechanisms of psychiatric illness before this knowledge is applied into clinical setting. Machine learning (ML) is an automated process that can detect patterns from large multidimensional datasets and can supersede conventional statistical methods as it can detect both linear and non-linear relationships. Due to this advantage, ML has potential to enhance our understanding, improve diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders. The current review provides an in-depth examination of, and offers practical guidance for, the challenges encountered in the application of ML models in psychiatric research and clinical practice. These challenges include the curse of dimensionality, data quality, the 'black box' problem, hyperparameter tuning, external validation, class imbalance, and data representativeness. These challenges are particularly critical in the context of psychiatry as it is expected that researchers will encounter them during the stages of ML model development and deployment. We detail practical solutions and best practices to effectively mitigate the outlined challenges. These recommendations have the potential to improve reliability and interpretability of ML models in psychiatry.
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- Dijana Ostojic
- School of Biological and Chemical Sciences and School of Psychology, Centre for Neuroimaging, Cognition and Genomics (NICOG), University of Galway, Ireland
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- Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom; Section for Precision Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- School of Biological and Chemical Sciences and School of Psychology, Centre for Neuroimaging, Cognition and Genomics (NICOG), University of Galway, Ireland
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- School of Biological and Chemical Sciences and School of Psychology, Centre for Neuroimaging, Cognition and Genomics (NICOG), University of Galway, Ireland.
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Zimny L, Schroeders U, Wilhelm O. Ant colony optimization for parallel test assembly. Behav Res Methods 2024; 56:5834-5848. [PMID: 38277085 PMCID: PMC11335849 DOI: 10.3758/s13428-023-02319-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/06/2023] [Indexed: 01/27/2024]
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Ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithms have previously been used to compile single short scales of psychological constructs. In the present article, we showcase the versatility of the ACO to construct multiple parallel short scales that adhere to several competing and interacting criteria simultaneously. Based on an initial pool of 120 knowledge items, we assembled three 12-item tests that (a) adequately cover the construct at the domain level, (b) follow a unidimensional measurement model, (c) allow reliable and (d) precise measurement of factual knowledge, and (e) are gender-fair. Moreover, we aligned the test characteristic and test information functions of the three tests to establish the equivalence of the tests. We cross-validated the assembled short scales and investigated their association with the full scale and covariates that were not included in the optimization procedure. Finally, we discuss potential extensions to metaheuristic test assembly and the equivalence of parallel knowledge tests in general.
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- Luc Zimny
- Institute of Psychology and Education, Ulm University, Albert-Einstein-Allee 47, 89081, Ulm, Germany.
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- Institute of Psychology and Education, Ulm University, Albert-Einstein-Allee 47, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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Wen X, Yang W, Du Z, Zhao J, Li Y, Yu D, Zhang J, Liu J, Yuan K. Multimodal frontal neuroimaging markers predict longitudinal craving reduction in abstinent individuals with heroin use disorder. J Psychiatr Res 2024; 177:1-10. [PMID: 38964089 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2024.06.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2024] [Revised: 06/02/2024] [Accepted: 06/24/2024] [Indexed: 07/06/2024]
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The variation in improvement among individuals with addiction after abstinence is a critical issue. Here, we aimed to identify robust multimodal markers associated with high response to 8-month abstinence in the individuals with heroin use disorder (HUD) and explore whether the identified markers could be generalized to the individuals with methamphetamine use disorder (MUD). According to the median of craving changes, 53 individuals with HUD with 8-month abstinence were divided into two groups: higher craving reduction and lower craving reduction. At baseline, clinical variables, cortical thickness and subcortical volume, fractional anisotropy (FA) of fibers and resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) were extracted. Different strategies (single metric, multimodal neuroimaging fusion and multimodal neuroimaging-clinical data fusion) were used to identify reliable features for discriminating the individuals with HUD with higher craving reduction from those with lower reduction. The generalization ability of the identified features was validated in the 21 individuals with MUD. Multimodal neuroimaging-clinical fusion features with best performance was achieved an 87.1 ± 3.89% average accuracy in individuals with HUD, with a moderate accuracy of 66.7% when generalizing to individuals with MUD. The multimodal neuroimaging features, primarily converging in frontal regions (e.g., the left superior frontal (LSF) thickness, FA of the LSF-occipital tract, and RSFC of left middle frontal-right superior temporal lobe), collectively contributed to prediction alongside dosage and attention impulsiveness. In this study, we identified the validated multimodal frontal neuroimaging markers associated with higher response to long-term abstinence and revealed insights for the neural mechanisms of addiction abstinence, contributing to clinical strategies and treatment for addiction.
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- Xinwen Wen
- School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710126, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China.
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- School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710126, China
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- School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710126, China
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- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Language Information Processing, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China
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- Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Image Processing, School of Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology, Baotou, Inner Mongolia, 014010, China
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- Hunan Judicial Police Academy, Changsha, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China.
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- School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710126, China; Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Image Processing, School of Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology, Baotou, Inner Mongolia, 014010, China; Engineering Research Center of Molecular and Neuro Imaging Ministry of Education, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China; Xi'an Key Laboratory of Intelligent Sensing and Regulation of Trans-Scale Life Information, School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710126, China.
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Yang S, Wu CH, Chuang LY, Yang CH. Forecasting the incidence frequencies of schizophrenia using deep learning. Asian J Psychiatr 2024; 101:104205. [PMID: 39243662 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajp.2024.104205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2024] [Revised: 06/02/2024] [Accepted: 08/29/2024] [Indexed: 09/09/2024]
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Mental disorders are becoming increasingly prevalent worldwide, and accurate incidence forecasting is crucial for effective mental health strategies. This study developed a long short-term memory (LSTM)-based recurrent neural network model to predict schizophrenia in inpatients in Taiwan. Data was collected on individuals aged over 20 years and diagnosed with schizophrenia between 1998 and 2015 from the National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD). The study compared six models, including LSTM, exponential smoothing, autoregressive integrated moving average, particle swarm optimization (PSO), PSO-based support vector regression, and deep neural network models, in terms of their predictive performance. The results showed that the LSTM model had the best accuracy, with the lowest mean absolute percentage error (2.34), root mean square error (157.42), and mean average error (154,831.70). This finding highlights the reliability of the LSTM model for forecasting mental disorder incidence. The study's findings provide valuable insights that can help government administrators devise clinical strategies for schizophrenia, and policymakers can use these predictions to formulate healthcare education and financial planning initiatives, fostering support networks for patients, caregivers, and the public.
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- Stephanie Yang
- Department of Psychology, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan City 701, Taiwan
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung 80778, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung City 84001, Taiwan.
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung 80778, Taiwan; Department of Information Management, Tainan University of Technology, Tainan, Taiwan; Ph. D. Program in Biomedical Engineering, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Drug Development and Value Creation Research Center, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
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Jiwani Z, Goldberg SB, Stroud J, Young J, Curtin J, Dunne JD, Simonsson O, Webb CA, Carhart-Harris R, Schlosser M. Can Psychedelic Use Benefit Meditation Practice? Examining Individual, Psychedelic, and Meditation-Related Factors. MEDRXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR HEALTH SCIENCES 2024:2024.08.27.24312677. [PMID: 39252913 PMCID: PMC11383514 DOI: 10.1101/2024.08.27.24312677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/11/2024]
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Introduction Meditation practice and psychedelic use have attracted increasing attention in the public sphere and scientific research. Both methods induce non-ordinary states of consciousness that may have significant therapeutic benefits. Thus, there is growing scientific interest in potential synergies between psychedelic use and meditation practice with some research suggesting that psychedelics may benefit meditation practice. The present study examined individual, psychedelic-related, and meditation-related factors to determine under what conditions meditators perceive psychedelic use as beneficial for their meditation practice. Method Participants (N = 863) who had reported psychedelic use and a regular meditation practice (at least 3 times per week during the last 12 months) were included in the study. To accommodate a large number of variables, machine learning (i.e., elastic net, random forest) was used to analyze the data. Results Most participants (n = 634, 73.5%) found psychedelic use to have a positive influence on their quality of meditation. Twenty-eight variables showed significant zero-order associations with perceived benefits even following a correction. Elastic net had the best performance (R2 = .266) and was used to identify the most important features. Across 53 variables, the model found that greater use of psychedelics, intention setting during psychedelic use, agreeableness, and exposure to N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (N,N-DMT) were most likely to be associated with the perception that psychedelics benefit meditation practice. The results were consistent across several different approaches used to identify the most important variables (i.e., Shapley values, feature ablation). Discussion Results suggest that most meditators found psychedelic use to have a positive influence on their meditation practice, with: 1) regularity of psychedelic use, 2) the setting of intentions for psychedelic use, 3) having an agreeable personality, and 4) reported use of N,N-DMT being the most likely predictors of perceiving psychedelic use as beneficial. Longitudinal designs and randomized trials manipulating psychedelic use are needed to establish causality.
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- Zishan Jiwani
- Department of Counseling Psychology, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin - Madison
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- Department of Counseling Psychology, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin - Madison
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- Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Counseling Psychology, University of Wisconsin - Madison
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- Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin - Madison
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- Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Wisconsin - Madison
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- Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden
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- Department of Psyciatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Center for Depression, Anxiety and Stress Research, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA
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- Division of Psychiatry, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- Institut für Psychotherapie Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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Kuhles G, Hamdan S, Heim S, Eickhoff S, Patil KR, Camilleri J, Weis S. Pitfalls in using ML to predict cognitive function performance. RESEARCH SQUARE 2024:rs.3.rs-4745684. [PMID: 39184094 PMCID: PMC11343279 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4745684/v1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/27/2024]
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Machine learning analyses are widely used for predicting cognitive abilities, yet there are pitfalls that need to be considered during their implementation and interpretation of the results. Hence, the present study aimed at drawing attention to the risks of erroneous conclusions incurred by confounding variables illustrated by a case example predicting executive function performance by prosodic features. Healthy participants (n = 231) performed speech tasks and EF tests. From 264 prosodic features, we predicted EF performance using 66 variables, controlling for confounding effects of age, sex, and education. A reasonable model fit was apparently achieved for EF variables of the Trail Making Test. However, in-depth analyses revealed indications of confound leakage, leading to inflated prediction accuracies, due to a strong relationship between confounds and targets. These findings highlight the need to control confounding variables in ML pipelines and caution against potential pitfalls in ML predictions.
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Marchitelli S, Mazza C, Ricci E, Faia V, Biondi S, Colasanti M, Cardinale A, Roma P, Tambelli R. Identification of Psychological Treatment Dropout Predictors Using Machine Learning Models on Italian Patients Living with Overweight and Obesity Ineligible for Bariatric Surgery. Nutrients 2024; 16:2605. [PMID: 39203742 PMCID: PMC11357013 DOI: 10.3390/nu16162605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2024] [Revised: 07/30/2024] [Accepted: 08/02/2024] [Indexed: 09/03/2024] Open
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According to the main international guidelines, patients with obesity and psychiatric/psychological disorders who cannot be addressed to surgery are recommended to follow a nutritional approach and a psychological treatment. A total of 94 patients (T0) completed a battery of self-report measures: Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R), Barratt Impulsiveness Scale-11 (BIS-11), Binge-Eating Scale (BES), Obesity-Related Well-Being Questionnaire-97 (ORWELL-97), and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2). Then, twelve sessions of a brief psychodynamic psychotherapy were delivered, which was followed by the participants completing the follow-up evaluation (T1). Two groups of patients were identified: Group 1 (n = 65), who fully completed the assessment in both T0 and T1; and Group 2-dropout (n = 29), who fulfilled the assessment only at T0 and not at T1. Machine learning models were implemented to investigate which variables were most associated with treatment failure. The classification tree model identified patients who were dropping out of treatment with an accuracy of about 80% by considering two variables: the MMPI-2 Correction (K) scale and the SCL-90-R Phobic Anxiety (PHOB) scale. Given the limited number of studies on this topic, the present results highlight the importance of considering the patient's level of adaptation and the social context in which they are integrated in treatment planning. Cautionary notes, implications, and future directions are discussed.
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- Serena Marchitelli
- UOC of Endocrinology, Metabolic Diseases, Andrology—CASCO (Center of High Specialization for the Treatment of Obesity), Policlinico Umberto I, Sapienza University of Rome, 00161 Rome, Italy;
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- Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, & Health Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, Via degli Apuli 1, 00185 Rome, Italy;
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- Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, University “G.d’Annunzio”, 66100 Chieti-Pescara, Italy;
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- The Free Spirit Collective Polyclinic, Dubai 252330, United Arab Emirates;
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- Department of Human Neuroscience, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy; (S.B.); (P.R.)
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- Department of Psychological, Health and Territorial Sciences, University “G.d’Annunzio”, 66100 Chieti-Pescara, Italy;
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- Department of Human Neuroscience, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy; (S.B.); (P.R.)
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- Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, & Health Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, Via degli Apuli 1, 00185 Rome, Italy;
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Xiao S, Bi Y, Chen W. What factors preventing the older adults in China from living longer: a machine learning study. BMC Geriatr 2024; 24:625. [PMID: 39039463 PMCID: PMC11265125 DOI: 10.1186/s12877-024-05214-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2024] [Accepted: 07/11/2024] [Indexed: 07/24/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND The fact that most older people do not live long means that they do not have more time to pursue self-actualization and contribute value to society. Although there are many studies on the longevity of the elderly, the limitations of traditional statistics lack the good ability to study together the important influencing factors and build a simple and effective prediction model. METHODS Based on the the data of Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS), 2008-2018 cohort and 2014-2018 cohort were selected and 16 features were filtered and integrated. Five machine learning algorithms, Elastic-Net Regression (ENR), Decision Tree (DT), Random Forest (RF), K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), and eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), were used to develop models and assessed by internal validation with CLHLS 2008-2018 cohort and temporal validation with CLHLS 2014-2018 cohort. Besides, the best performing model was explained and according to the variable importance results, simpler models would be developed. RESULTS The results showed that the model developed by XGBoost algorithm had the best performance with AUC of 0.788 in internal validation and 0.806 in temporal validation. Instrumental activity of daily living (IADL), leisure activity, marital status, sex, activity of daily living (ADL), cognitive function, overall plant-based diet index (PDI) and psychological resilience, 8 features were more important in the model. Finally, with these 8 features simpler models were developed, it was found that the model performance did not decrease in both internal and temporal validation. CONCLUSIONS The study indicated that the importance of these 8 factors for predicting the death of elderly people in China and built a simple machine learning model with good predictive performance. It can inspire future key research directions to promote longevity of the elderly, as well as in practical life to make the elderly healthy longevity, or timely end-of-life care for the elderly, and can use predictive model to aid decision-making.
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- Shiyin Xiao
- School of Psychology, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, China
- Center for Big Data Research in Psychology, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, China
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- School of Psychology, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, China
- Center for Big Data Research in Psychology, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, China
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- School of Psychology, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, China.
- Center for Big Data Research in Psychology, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, China.
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Xu H, Liu D, Xu X, Chen Y, Qu W, Tan Y, Wang Z, Zhao Y, Tan S. Suicide attempts and non-suicidal self-injury in Chinese adolescents: Predictive models using a neural network model. Asian J Psychiatr 2024; 97:104088. [PMID: 38810490 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajp.2024.104088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2024] [Revised: 04/14/2024] [Accepted: 04/26/2024] [Indexed: 05/31/2024]
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INTRODUCTION Suicide attempts (SA) are a significant contributor to suicide deaths, and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) can increase the risk of SA. Many adolescents experience both NSSI and SA, which are affected by various factors. This study aimed to identify the risk factors and essential warning signs of SA, establish a predictive model for SA using multiple dimensions and large samples, and provide a multidimensional perspective for clinical diagnosis and intervention. METHODS A total of 9140 participants aged 12-18 years participated in an online survey; 6959 participants were included in the statistical analysis. A multilayer perceptron algorithm was used to establish a prediction model for adolescent SA (with or without); adolescents with NSSI behavior were extracted as a subgroup to establish a prediction model. RESULTS Both the prediction model performance of the SA group and the NSSI-SA subgroup were strong, with high accuracy, and AUC values of 0.93 and 0.88, indicating good discrimination. Decision curve analysis (DCA) demonstrated that the clinical intervention value of the prediction results was high and that the clinical intervention benefits of the NSSI-SA subgroup were greater than those of the SA group. CONCLUSIONS Our study demonstrated that the predictive model has a high degree of accuracy and discrimination, thereby identifying significant factors associated with adolescent SA. As long as adolescents exhibit NSSI behavior, relative suicide interventions should be implemented to prevent future hazards. This study can provide guidance and more nuanced insights for clinical diagnosis as well as a foundation for clinical treatment.
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- Hao Xu
- Beijing Huilonguan Hospital, Peking University Huilongguan Clinical Medical School, Beijing 100096, China; North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan 063210, China
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- Ganzhou Third People's Hospital No. 10, Jiangbei Avenue, Zhanggong District, Ganzhou, Jiangxi 341000, China.
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- Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
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- Beijing Huilonguan Hospital, Peking University Huilongguan Clinical Medical School, Beijing 100096, China
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- Beijing Huilonguan Hospital, Peking University Huilongguan Clinical Medical School, Beijing 100096, China
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- Beijing Huilonguan Hospital, Peking University Huilongguan Clinical Medical School, Beijing 100096, China
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- Beijing Huilonguan Hospital, Peking University Huilongguan Clinical Medical School, Beijing 100096, China
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- Beijing Huilonguan Hospital, Peking University Huilongguan Clinical Medical School, Beijing 100096, China
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- Beijing Huilonguan Hospital, Peking University Huilongguan Clinical Medical School, Beijing 100096, China; North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan 063210, China.
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Garbazza C, Mangili F, D'Onofrio TA, Malpetti D, Riccardi S, Cicolin A, D'Agostino A, Cirignotta F, Manconi M. A machine learning model to predict the risk of perinatal depression: Psychosocial and sleep-related factors in the Life-ON study cohort. Psychiatry Res 2024; 337:115957. [PMID: 38788556 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2024.115957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2023] [Revised: 05/06/2024] [Accepted: 05/09/2024] [Indexed: 05/26/2024]
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Perinatal depression (PND) is a common complication of pregnancy associated with serious health consequences for both mothers and their babies. Identifying risk factors for PND is key to early detect women at increased risk of developing this condition. We applied a machine learning (ML) approach to data from a multicenter cohort study on sleep and mood changes during the perinatal period ("Life-ON") to derive models for PND risk prediction in a cross-validation setting. A wide range of sociodemographic variables, blood-based biomarkers, sleep, medical, and psychological data collected from 439 pregnant women, as well as polysomnographic parameters recorded from 353 women, were considered for model building. These covariates were correlated with the risk of future depression, as assessed by regularly administering the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale across the perinatal period. The ML model indicated the mood status of pregnant women in the first trimester, previous depressive episodes and marital status, as the most important predictors of PND. Sleep quality, insomnia symptoms, age, previous miscarriages, and stressful life events also added to the model performance. Besides other predictors, sleep changes during early pregnancy should therefore assessed to identify women at higher risk of PND and support them with appropriate therapeutic strategies.
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- Corrado Garbazza
- Sleep Medicine Unit, Neurocenter of Southern Switzerland, Lugano, Switzerland; Centre for Chronobiology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Research Cluster Molecular and Cognitive Neurosciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
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- Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale (IDSIA), USI/SUPSI, Lugano, Switzerland
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- Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale (IDSIA), USI/SUPSI, Lugano, Switzerland
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- Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale (IDSIA), USI/SUPSI, Lugano, Switzerland
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- Sleep Medicine Unit, Neurocenter of Southern Switzerland, Lugano, Switzerland
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- Sleep Medicine Center, Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Mental Health and Addiction, ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo, Milan, Italy; Department of Health Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Sleep Medicine Unit, Neurocenter of Southern Switzerland, Lugano, Switzerland; Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland; Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland
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Buebos-Esteve DE, Dagamac NHA. Spatiotemporal models of dengue epidemiology in the Philippines: Integrating remote sensing and interpretable machine learning. Acta Trop 2024; 255:107225. [PMID: 38701871 DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2024.107225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2023] [Revised: 04/12/2024] [Accepted: 04/19/2024] [Indexed: 05/05/2024]
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Previous dengue epidemiological analyses have been limited in spatiotemporal extent or covariate dimensions, the latter neglecting the multifactorial nature of dengue. These constraints, caused by rigid and traditional statistical tools which collapse amidst 'Big Data', prompt interpretable machine-learning (iML) approaches. Predicting dengue incidence and mortality in the Philippines, a data-limited yet high-burden country, the mlr3 universe of R packages was used to build and optimize ML models based on remotely sensed provincial and dekadal 3 NDVI and 9 rainfall features from 2016 to 2020. Between two tasks, models differ across four random forest-based learners and two clustering strategies. Among 16 candidates, rfsrc-year-case and ranger-year-death significantly perform best for predicting dengue incidence and mortality, respectively. Therefore, temporal clustering yields the best models, reflective of dengue seasonality. The two best models were subjected to tripartite global exploratory model analyses, which encompass model-agnostic post-hoc methods such as Permutation Feature Importance (PFI) and Accumulated Local Effects (ALE). PFI reveals that the models differ in their important explanatory aspect, rainfall for rfsrc-year-case and NDVI for ranger-year-death, among which long-term average (lta) features are most relevant. Trend-wise, ALE reveals that average incidence predictions are positively associated with 'Rain.lta', reflective of dengue cases peaking during the wet season. In contrast, those for mortality are negatively associated with 'NDVI.lta', reflective of urban spaces driving dengue-related deaths. By technologically addressing the challenges of the human-animal-ecosystem interface, this study adheres to the One Digital Health paradigm operationalized under Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Leveraging data digitization and predictive modeling for epidemiological research paves SDG 3, which prioritizes holistic health and well-being.
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- Don Enrico Buebos-Esteve
- Initiatives for Conservation, Landscape Ecology, Bioprospecting, and Biomodeling (ICOLABB), Research Center for the Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Santo Tomas, España, Manila 1008, Philippines.
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- Initiatives for Conservation, Landscape Ecology, Bioprospecting, and Biomodeling (ICOLABB), Research Center for the Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Santo Tomas, España, Manila 1008, Philippines; Department of Biological Sciences, College of Science, University of Santo Tomas, España, Manila 1008, Philippines; The Graduate School, University of Santo Tomas, España, Manila 1008, Philippines
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Franco D'Souza R, Mathew M, Amanullah S, Edward Thornton J, Mishra V, E M, Louis Palatty P, Surapaneni KM. Navigating merits and limits on the current perspectives and ethical challenges in the utilization of artificial intelligence in psychiatry - An exploratory mixed methods study. Asian J Psychiatr 2024; 97:104067. [PMID: 38718518 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajp.2024.104067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2024] [Accepted: 04/29/2024] [Indexed: 06/16/2024]
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BACKGROUND The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in psychiatry presents opportunities for enhancing patient care but raises significant ethical concerns and challenges in clinical application. Addressing these challenges necessitates an informed and ethically aware psychiatric workforce capable of integrating AI into practice responsibly. METHODS A mixed-methods study was conducted to assess the outcomes of the "CONNECT with AI" - (Collaborative Opportunity to Navigate and Negotiate Ethical Challenges and Trials with Artificial Intelligence) workshop, aimed at exploring AI's ethical implications and applications in psychiatry. This workshop featured presentations, discussions, and scenario analyses focusing on AI's role in mental health care. Pre- and post-workshop questionnaires and focus group discussions evaluated participants' perspectives, and ethical understanding regarding AI in psychiatry. RESULTS Participants exhibited a cautious optimism towards AI, recognizing its potential to augment mental health care while expressing concerns over ethical usage, patient-doctor relationships, and AI's practical application in patient care. The workshop significantly improved participants' ethical understanding, highlighting a substantial knowledge gap and the need for further education in AI among psychiatrists. CONCLUSION The study underscores the necessity of continuous education and ethical guideline development for psychiatrists in the era of AI, emphasizing collaborative efforts in AI system design to ensure they meet clinical needs ethically and effectively. Future initiatives should aim to broaden psychiatrists' exposure to AI, fostering a deeper understanding and integration of AI technologies in psychiatric practice.
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- Russell Franco D'Souza
- Department of Education, UNESCO Chair in Bioethics, Melbourne, Australia; Department of Organizational Psychological Medicine, International Institute of Organisational Psychological Medicine, 71 Cleeland Street, Dandenong Victoria, Melbourne 3175, Australia
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- Department of Pathology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Tiger Circle Road, Madhav Nagar, Manipal, Karnataka 576104, India
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- Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, Queen's University, Providence Care Hospital, 752 King Street West, Postal Bag 603 Kingston, ON K7L7X3, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- School of Higher Education & Research, Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to be University), Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Psychiatry, Sun Medical and Research Centre, Thrissur, Kerala 680 001, India
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- Department of Pharmacology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Elamakkara P.O., Kochi, Kerala 682 041, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, Panimalar Medical College Hospital & Research Institute, Varadharajapuram, Poonamallee, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600 123, India; Department of Medical Education, Panimalar Medical College Hospital & Research Institute, Varadharajapuram, Poonamallee, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600 123, India.
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Cattarinussi G, Di Camillo F, Grimaldi DA, Sambataro F. Diagnostic value of regional homogeneity and fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations in the classification of schizophrenia and bipolar disorders. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2024:10.1007/s00406-024-01838-4. [PMID: 38914853 DOI: 10.1007/s00406-024-01838-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2024] [Accepted: 06/03/2024] [Indexed: 06/26/2024]
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Schizophrenia (SCZ) and bipolar disorders (BD) show significant neurobiological and clinical overlap. In this study, we wanted to identify indexes of intrinsic brain activity that could differentiate these disorders. We compared the diagnostic value of the fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (fALFF) and regional homogeneity (ReHo) estimated from resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging in a support vector machine classification of 59 healthy controls (HC), 40 individuals with SCZ, and 43 individuals with BD type I. The best performance, measured by balanced accuracy (BAC) for binary classification relative to HC was achieved by a stacking model (87.4% and 90.6% for SCZ and BD, respectively), with ReHo performing better than fALFF, both in SCZ (86.2% vs. 79.4%) and BD (89.9% vs. 76.9%). BD were better differentiated from HC by fronto-temporal ReHo and striato-temporo-thalamic fALFF. SCZ were better classified from HC using fronto-temporal-cerebellar ReHo and insulo-tempo-parietal-cerebellar fALFF. In conclusion, we provided evidence of widespread aberrancies of spontaneous activity and local connectivity in SCZ and BD, demonstrating that ReHo features exhibited superior discriminatory power compared to fALFF and achieved higher classification accuracies. Our results support the complementarity of these measures in the classification of SCZ and BD and suggest the potential for multivariate integration to improve diagnostic precision.
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- Giulia Cattarinussi
- Department of Neuroscience (DNS), Padova Neuroscience Center (PNC), University of Padova, Azienda Ospedaliera di Padova, Via Giustiniani, 2, Padua, I-35128, Italy
- Padova Neuroscience Center, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
- Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroscience (DNS), Padova Neuroscience Center (PNC), University of Padova, Azienda Ospedaliera di Padova, Via Giustiniani, 2, Padua, I-35128, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience (DNS), Padova Neuroscience Center (PNC), University of Padova, Azienda Ospedaliera di Padova, Via Giustiniani, 2, Padua, I-35128, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience (DNS), Padova Neuroscience Center (PNC), University of Padova, Azienda Ospedaliera di Padova, Via Giustiniani, 2, Padua, I-35128, Italy.
- Padova Neuroscience Center, University of Padova, Padua, Italy.
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Li Y, Shao Y, Wang J, Liu Y, Yang Y, Wang Z, Xi Q. Machine learning based on functional and structural connectivity in mild cognitive impairment. Magn Reson Imaging 2024; 109:10-17. [PMID: 38408690 DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2024.02.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2023] [Revised: 02/21/2024] [Accepted: 02/21/2024] [Indexed: 02/28/2024]
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OBJECTIVE Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a chronic, degenerative neurological disorder characterized by progressive cognitive decline and mental behavioral abnormalities. Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is regarded as a transitional stage in the progression from normal elderly individuals to patients with AD. While studies have identified abnormalities in brain connectivity in patients with MCI, including functional and structural connectivity, accurately identifying patients with MCI in clinical screening remains challenging. We hypothesized that utilizing machine learning (ML) based on both functional and structural connectivity could yield meaningful results in distinguishing between patients with MCI and normal elderly individuals, so as to provide valuable information for early diagnosis and precise evaluation of patients with MCI. METHODS Following clinical criteria, we recruited 32 patients with MCI for the patient group, and 32 normal elderly individuals for the control group. All subjects underwent examinations for resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). Subsequently, significant functional and structural connectivity features were selected and combined with a support vector machine for classification of the patient and control groups. RESULTS We observed significantly different functional connectivity in the frontal lobe and putamen between the MCI group and normal controls. The results based on functional connectivity features demonstrated a classification accuracy of 71.88% and an area under the curve (AUC) value of 0.78. In terms of structural connectivity, we found that decreased fractional anisotropy in patients with MCI was significantly associated with Montreal Cognitive Assessment scores, specifically in regions such as the precuneus and cingulate gyrus. The classification results using the structural connectivity feature yielded an accuracy of 92.19% and an AUC value of 0.99. Lastly, combining functional and structural connectivity features resulted in a classification accuracy and AUC value of 93.75% and 0.99, respectively. CONCLUSIONS In this study, we demonstrated a high classification performance, underscoring the potential of both brain functional and structural connectivity in distinguishing patients with MCI from normal elderly individuals. Furthermore, the integration of functional connectivity and structural connectivity features indicated that utilizing rs-fMRI and DTI could enhance the accuracy and specificity of identifying patients with MCI compared with relying on a single neuroimaging technique.
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- Yan Li
- Department of Radiology, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 150 Jimo Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai 200120, China
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- Department of Radiology, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 150 Jimo Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai 200120, China
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- Department of Radiology, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 150 Jimo Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai 200120, China; Department of Radiology, Daping Hospital, Army Medical University, No. 10 Changjiang Branch Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing 400042, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Donghua University, No. 2999 North Renmin Road, Songjiang Area, Shanghai 200000, China.
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- Department of Radiology, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 150 Jimo Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai 200120, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Donghua University, No. 2999 North Renmin Road, Songjiang Area, Shanghai 200000, China.
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- Department of Radiology, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 150 Jimo Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai 200120, China.
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van Dellen E. Precision psychiatry: predicting predictability. Psychol Med 2024; 54:1500-1509. [PMID: 38497091 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291724000370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/19/2024]
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Precision psychiatry is an emerging field that aims to provide individualized approaches to mental health care. An important strategy to achieve this precision is to reduce uncertainty about prognosis and treatment response. Multivariate analysis and machine learning are used to create outcome prediction models based on clinical data such as demographics, symptom assessments, genetic information, and brain imaging. While much emphasis has been placed on technical innovation, the complex and varied nature of mental health presents significant challenges to the successful implementation of these models. From this perspective, I review ten challenges in the field of precision psychiatry, including the need for studies on real-world populations and realistic clinical outcome definitions, and consideration of treatment-related factors such as placebo effects and non-adherence to prescriptions. Fairness, prospective validation in comparison to current practice and implementation studies of prediction models are other key issues that are currently understudied. A shift is proposed from retrospective studies based on linear and static concepts of disease towards prospective research that considers the importance of contextual factors and the dynamic and complex nature of mental health.
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- Edwin van Dellen
- Department of Psychiatry and University Medical Center Utrecht Brain Center, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Department of Neurology, UZ Brussel and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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Yang H, Zhu D, He S, Xu Z, Liu Z, Zhang W, Cai J. Enhancing psychiatric rehabilitation outcomes through a multimodal multitask learning model based on BERT and TabNet: An approach for personalized treatment and improved decision-making. Psychiatry Res 2024; 336:115896. [PMID: 38626625 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2024.115896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2023] [Revised: 04/03/2024] [Accepted: 04/05/2024] [Indexed: 04/18/2024]
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Evaluating the rehabilitation status of individuals with serious mental illnesses (SMI) necessitates a comprehensive analysis of multimodal data, including unstructured text records and structured diagnostic data. However, progress in the effective assessment of rehabilitation status remains limited. Our study develops a deep learning model integrating Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) and TabNet through a late fusion strategy to enhance rehabilitation prediction, including referral risk, dangerous behaviors, self-awareness, and medication adherence, in patients with SMI. BERT processes unstructured textual data, such as doctor's notes, whereas TabNet manages structured diagnostic information. The model's interpretability function serves to assist healthcare professionals in understanding the model's predictive decisions, improving patient care. Our model exhibited excellent predictive performance for all four tasks, with an accuracy exceeding 0.78 and an area under the curve of 0.70. In addition, a series of tests proved the model's robustness, fairness, and interpretability. This study combines multimodal and multitask learning strategies into a model and applies it to rehabilitation assessment tasks, offering a promising new tool that can be seamlessly integrated with the clinical workflow to support the provision of optimized patient care.
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- Hongyi Yang
- School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
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- Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China; Shanghai Institute of Infectious Disease and Biosecurity, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; Mental Health Branch, China Hospital Development Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
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- Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China; Mental Health Branch, China Hospital Development Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
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Delamain H, Buckman JEJ, O'Driscoll C, Suh JW, Stott J, Singh S, Naqvi SA, Leibowitz J, Pilling S, Saunders R. Predicting post-treatment symptom severity for adults receiving psychological therapy in routine care for generalised anxiety disorder: a machine learning approach. Psychiatry Res 2024; 336:115910. [PMID: 38608539 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2024.115910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2023] [Revised: 04/03/2024] [Accepted: 04/08/2024] [Indexed: 04/14/2024]
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Approximately half of generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) patients do not recover from first-line treatments, and no validated prediction models exist to inform individuals or clinicians of potential treatment benefits. This study aimed to develop and validate an accurate and explainable prediction model of post-treatment GAD symptom severity. Data from adults receiving treatment for GAD in eight Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services (n=15,859) were separated into training, validation and holdout datasets. Thirteen machine learning algorithms were compared using 10-fold cross-validation, against two simple clinically relevant comparison models. The best-performing model was tested on the holdout dataset and model-specific explainability measures identified the most important predictors. A Bayesian Additive Regression Trees model out-performed all comparison models (MSE=16.54 [95 % CI=15.58; 17.51]; MAE=3.19; R²=0.33, including a single predictor linear regression model: MSE=20.70 [95 % CI=19.58; 21.82]; MAE=3.94; R²=0.14). The five most important predictors were: PHQ-9 anhedonia, GAD-7 annoyance/irritability, restlessness and fear items, then the referral-assessment waiting time. The best-performing model accurately predicted post-treatment GAD symptom severity using only pre-treatment data, outperforming comparison models that approximated clinical judgement and remaining within the GAD-7 error of measurement and minimal clinically important differences. This model could inform treatment decision-making and provide desired information to clinicians and patients receiving treatment for GAD.
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- H Delamain
- CORE Data Lab, Centre for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness (CORE), Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, UCL, London, United Kingdom.
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- CORE Data Lab, Centre for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness (CORE), Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, UCL, London, United Kingdom; iCope - Camden and Islington Psychological Therapies Services, Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- CORE Data Lab, Centre for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness (CORE), Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, UCL, London, United Kingdom
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- CORE Data Lab, Centre for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness (CORE), Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, UCL, London, United Kingdom
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- ADAPT Lab, Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, UCL, London, United Kingdom
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- Waltham Forest Talking Therapies, North East London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Barking and Dagenham and Havering IAPT Services, North East London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- iCope - Camden and Islington Psychological Therapies Services, Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- CORE Data Lab, Centre for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness (CORE), Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, UCL, London, United Kingdom; Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- CORE Data Lab, Centre for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness (CORE), Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, UCL, London, United Kingdom
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Khan AE, Hasan MJ, Anjum H, Mohammed N, Momen S. Predicting life satisfaction using machine learning and explainable AI. Heliyon 2024; 10:e31158. [PMID: 38818204 PMCID: PMC11137391 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e31158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2024] [Revised: 05/09/2024] [Accepted: 05/10/2024] [Indexed: 06/01/2024] Open
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Life satisfaction is a crucial facet of human well-being. Hence, research on life satisfaction is incumbent for understanding how individuals experience their lives and influencing interventions targeted at enhancing mental health and well-being. Life satisfaction has traditionally been measured using analog, complicated, and frequently error-prone methods. These methods raise questions concerning validation and propagation. However, this study demonstrates the potential for machine learning algorithms to predict life satisfaction with a high accuracy of 93.80% and a 73.00% macro F1-score. The dataset comes from a government survey of 19000 people aged 16-64 years in Denmark. Using feature learning techniques, 27 significant questions for assessing contentment were extracted, making the study highly reproducible, simple, and easily interpretable. Furthermore, clinical and biomedical large language models (LLMs) were explored for predicting life satisfaction by converting tabular data into natural language sentences through mapping and adding meaningful counterparts, achieving an accuracy of 93.74% and macro F1-score of 73.21%. It was found that life satisfaction prediction is more closely related to the biomedical domain than the clinical domain. Ablation studies were also conducted to understand the impact of data resampling and feature selection techniques on model performance. Moreover, the correlation between primary determinants with different age brackets was analyzed, and it was found that health condition is the most important determinant across all ages. The best performing Machine Learning model trained in this study is deployed on a public server, ensuring unrestricted usage of the model. We highlight the advantages of machine learning methods for predicting life satisfaction and the significance of XAI for interpreting and validating these predictions. This study demonstrates how machine learning, large language models and XAI can jointly contribute to building trust and understanding in using AI to investigate human behavior, with significant ramifications for academics and professionals working to quantify and comprehend subjective well-being.
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- Alif Elham Khan
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North South University, Plot # 15 Block B, Bashundhara R/A, Dhaka, 1229, Bangladesh
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North South University, Plot # 15 Block B, Bashundhara R/A, Dhaka, 1229, Bangladesh
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North South University, Plot # 15 Block B, Bashundhara R/A, Dhaka, 1229, Bangladesh
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North South University, Plot # 15 Block B, Bashundhara R/A, Dhaka, 1229, Bangladesh
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North South University, Plot # 15 Block B, Bashundhara R/A, Dhaka, 1229, Bangladesh
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McKee K, Rothschild D, Young SR, Uttal DH. Looking Ahead: Advancing Measurement and Analysis of the Block Design Test Using Technology and Artificial Intelligence. J Intell 2024; 12:53. [PMID: 38921688 PMCID: PMC11204419 DOI: 10.3390/jintelligence12060053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2023] [Revised: 05/18/2024] [Accepted: 05/21/2024] [Indexed: 06/27/2024] Open
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The block design test (BDT) has been used for over a century in research and clinical contexts as a measure of spatial cognition, both as a singular ability and as part of more comprehensive intelligence assessment. Traditionally, the BDT has been scored using methods that do not reflect the full potential of individual differences that could be measured by the test. Recent advancements in technology, including eye-tracking, embedded sensor systems, and artificial intelligence, have provided new opportunities to measure and analyze data from the BDT. In this methodological review, we outline the information that BDT can assess, review several recent advancements in measurement and analytic methods, discuss potential future uses of these methods, and advocate for further research using these methods.
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- Kiley McKee
- Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
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Müller-Bardorff M, Schulz A, Paersch C, Recher D, Schlup B, Seifritz E, Kolassa IT, Kowatsch T, Fisher A, Galatzer-Levy I, Kleim B. Optimizing Outcomes in Psychotherapy for Anxiety Disorders Using Smartphone-Based and Passive Sensing Features: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Res Protoc 2024; 13:e42547. [PMID: 38743473 PMCID: PMC11134235 DOI: 10.2196/42547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2022] [Revised: 10/06/2022] [Accepted: 10/20/2022] [Indexed: 05/16/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Psychotherapies, such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), currently have the strongest evidence of durable symptom changes for most psychological disorders, such as anxiety disorders. Nevertheless, only about half of individuals treated with CBT benefit from it. Predictive algorithms, including digital assessments and passive sensing features, could better identify patients who would benefit from CBT, and thus, improve treatment choices. OBJECTIVE This study aims to establish predictive features that forecast responses to transdiagnostic CBT in anxiety disorders and to investigate key mechanisms underlying treatment responses. METHODS This study is a 2-armed randomized controlled clinical trial. We include patients with anxiety disorders who are randomized to either a transdiagnostic CBT group or a waitlist (referred to as WAIT). We index key features to predict responses prior to starting treatment using subjective self-report questionnaires, experimental tasks, biological samples, ecological momentary assessments, activity tracking, and smartphone-based passive sensing to derive a multimodal feature set for predictive modeling. Additional assessments take place weekly at mid- and posttreatment and at 6- and 12-month follow-ups to index anxiety and depression symptom severity. We aim to include 150 patients, randomized to CBT versus WAIT at a 3:1 ratio. The data set will be subject to full feature and important features selected by minimal redundancy and maximal relevance feature selection and then fed into machine leaning models, including eXtreme gradient boosting, pattern recognition network, and k-nearest neighbors to forecast treatment response. The performance of the developed models will be evaluated. In addition to predictive modeling, we will test specific mechanistic hypotheses (eg, association between self-efficacy, daily symptoms obtained using ecological momentary assessments, and treatment response) to elucidate mechanisms underlying treatment response. RESULTS The trial is now completed. It was approved by the Cantonal Ethics Committee, Zurich. The results will be disseminated through publications in scientific peer-reviewed journals and conference presentations. CONCLUSIONS The aim of this trial is to improve current CBT treatment by precise forecasting of treatment response and by understanding and potentially augmenting underpinning mechanisms and personalizing treatment. TRIAL REGISTRATION ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03945617; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT03945617. INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT IDENTIFIER (IRRID) DERR1-10.2196/42547.
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- Miriam Müller-Bardorff
- Experimental Psychopathology and Psychotherapy, Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Experimental Psychopathology and Psychotherapy, Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Experimental Psychopathology and Psychotherapy, Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Experimental Psychopathology and Psychotherapy, Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- School of Medicine, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Centre for Digital Health Interventions, Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
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- Experimental Psychopathology and Psychotherapy, Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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De Luca GP, Parghi N, El Hayek R, Bloch-Elkouby S, Peterkin D, Wolfe A, Rogers ML, Galynker I. Machine learning approach for the development of a crucial tool in suicide prevention: The Suicide Crisis Inventory-2 (SCI-2) Short Form. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0299048. [PMID: 38728274 PMCID: PMC11086905 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0299048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2023] [Accepted: 02/04/2024] [Indexed: 05/12/2024] Open
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The Suicide Crisis Syndrome (SCS) describes a suicidal mental state marked by entrapment, affective disturbance, loss of cognitive control, hyperarousal, and social withdrawal that has predictive capacity for near-term suicidal behavior. The Suicide Crisis Inventory-2 (SCI-2), a reliable clinical tool that assesses SCS, lacks a short form for use in clinical settings which we sought to address with statistical analysis. To address this need, a community sample of 10,357 participants responded to an anonymous survey after which predictive performance for suicidal ideation (SI) and SI with preparatory behavior (SI-P) was measured using logistic regression, random forest, and gradient boosting algorithms. Four-fold cross-validation was used to split the dataset in 1,000 iterations. We compared rankings to the SCI-Short Form to inform the short form of the SCI-2. Logistic regression performed best in every analysis. The SI results were used to build the SCI-2-Short Form (SCI-2-SF) utilizing the two top ranking items from each SCS criterion. SHAP analysis of the SCI-2 resulted in meaningful rankings of its items. The SCI-2-SF, derived from these rankings, will be tested for predictive validity and utility in future studies.
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- Gabriele P. De Luca
- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, University of Rome Sapienza, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biology, New York University, New York City, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York City, New York, United States of America
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York City, New York, United States of America
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York City, New York, United States of America
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York City, New York, United States of America
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York City, New York, United States of America
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, New York, United States of America
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Grohmann M, Kirchebner J, Lau S, Sonnweber M. Delusions and Delinquencies: A Comparison of Violent and Non-Violent Offenders With Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OFFENDER THERAPY AND COMPARATIVE CRIMINOLOGY 2024:306624X241248356. [PMID: 38708899 DOI: 10.1177/0306624x241248356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2024]
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The relationship between schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) and violent offending has long been the subject of research. The present study attempts to identify the content of delusions, an understudied factor in this regard, that differentiates between violent and non-violent offenses. Limitations, clinical relevance, and future directions are discussed. Employing a retrospective study design, machine learning algorithms and a comprehensive set of variables were applied to a sample of 366 offenders with a schizophrenia spectrum disorder in a Swiss forensic psychiatry department. Taking into account the different contents and affects associated with delusions, eight variables were identified as having an impact on discriminating between violent and non-violent offenses with an AUC of 0.68, a sensitivity of 30.8%, and a specificity of 91.9%, suggesting that the variables found are useful for discriminating between violent and non-violent offenses. Delusions of grandiosity, delusional police and/or army pursuit, delusional perceived physical and/or mental injury, and delusions of control or passivity were more predictive of non-violent offenses, while delusions with aggressive content or delusions associated with the emotions of anger, distress, or agitation were more frequently associated with violent offenses. Our findings extend and confirm current research on the content of delusions in patients with SSD. In particular, we found that the symptoms of threat/control override (TCO) do not directly lead to violent behavior but are mediated by other variables such as anger. Notably, delusions traditionally seen as symptoms of TCO, appear to have a protective value against violent behavior. These findings will hopefully help to reduce the stigma commonly and erroneously associated with mental illness, while supporting the development of effective therapeutic approaches.
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Papazova I, Wunderlich S, Papazov B, Vogelmann U, Keeser D, Karali T, Falkai P, Rospleszcz S, Maurus I, Schmitt A, Hasan A, Malchow B, Stöcklein S. Characterizing cognitive subtypes in schizophrenia using cortical curvature. J Psychiatr Res 2024; 173:131-138. [PMID: 38531143 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2024.03.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2023] [Revised: 03/11/2024] [Accepted: 03/19/2024] [Indexed: 03/28/2024]
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Cognitive deficits are a core symptom of schizophrenia, but research on their neural underpinnings has been challenged by the heterogeneity in deficits' severity among patients. Here, we address this issue by combining logistic regression and random forest to classify two neuropsychological profiles of patients with high (HighCog) and low (LowCog) cognitive performance in two independent samples. We based our analysis on the cortical features grey matter volume (VOL), cortical thickness (CT), and mean curvature (MC) of N = 57 patients (discovery sample) and validated the classification in an independent sample (N = 52). We investigated which cortical feature would yield the best classification results and expected that the 10 most important features would include frontal and temporal brain regions. The model based on MC had the best performance with area under the curve (AUC) values of 76% and 73%, and identified fronto-temporal and occipital brain regions as the most important features for the classification. Moreover, subsequent comparison analyses could reveal significant differences in MC of single brain regions between the two cognitive profiles. The present study suggests MC as a promising neuroanatomical parameter for characterizing schizophrenia cognitive subtypes.
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- Irina Papazova
- Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Augsburg, Geschwister-Schönert-Straße 1, 86156, Augsburg, Germany; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany; DZPG (German Center for Mental Health), partner site München, Augsburg, Germany.
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- Department of Radiology, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany; Department of Interventional Radiology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Radiology, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany; Department of Radiology, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Radiology, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany; Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany; Department of Epidemiology, Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany; Laboratory of Neuroscience (LIM27), Institute of Psychiatry, University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
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- Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Augsburg, Geschwister-Schönert-Straße 1, 86156, Augsburg, Germany; DZPG (German Center for Mental Health), partner site München, Augsburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiology, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
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Atzil-Slonim D, Penedo JMG, Lutz W. Leveraging Novel Technologies and Artificial Intelligence to Advance Practice-Oriented Research. ADMINISTRATION AND POLICY IN MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH 2024; 51:306-317. [PMID: 37880473 DOI: 10.1007/s10488-023-01309-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/29/2023] [Indexed: 10/27/2023]
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Mental health services are experiencing notable transformations as innovative technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly utilized in a growing number of studies and services.These cutting-edge technologies carry the promise of substantial improvements in the field of mental health. Nevertheless, questions emerge about the alignment of novel technologies and AI systems with human needs, especially in the context of vulnerable populations receiving mental healthcare. The practice-oriented research (POR) model is pivotal in seamlessly integrating these emerging technologies into clinical research and practice. It underscores the importance of tight collaboration between clinicians and researchers, all driven by the central goal of ensuring and elevating client well-being. This paper focuses on how novel technologies can enhance the POR model and highlights its pivotal role in integrating these technologies into clinical research and practice. We discuss two key phases: pre-treatment, and during treatment. For each phase, we describe the challenges, present the major technological innovations, describe recent studies exemplifying technology use, and suggest future directions. Ethical concerns and the importance of aligning humans and technology are also considered, in addition to implications for practice and training.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Trier, Trier, Germany
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McClure K, Ammerman BA, Jacobucci R. On the Selection of Item Scores or Composite Scores for Clinical Prediction. MULTIVARIATE BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH 2024; 59:566-583. [PMID: 38414280 DOI: 10.1080/00273171.2023.2292598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/29/2024]
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Recent shifts to prioritize prediction, rather than explanation, in psychological science have increased applications of predictive modeling methods. However, composite predictors, such as sum scores, are still commonly used in practice. The motivations behind composite test scores are largely intertwined with reducing the influence of measurement error in answering explanatory questions. But this may be detrimental for predictive aims. The present paper examines the impact of utilizing composite or item-level predictors in linear regression. A mathematical examination of the bias-variance decomposition of prediction error in the presence of measurement error is provided. It is shown that prediction bias, which may be exacerbated by composite scoring, drives prediction error for linear regression. This may be particularly salient when composite scores are comprised of heterogeneous items such as in clinical scales where items correspond to symptoms. With sufficiently large training samples, the increased prediction variance associated with item scores becomes negligible even when composite scores are sufficient. Practical implications of predictor scoring are examined in an empirical example predicting suicidal ideation from various depression scales. Results show that item scores can markedly improve prediction particularly for symptom-based scales. Cross-validation methods can be used to empirically justify predictor scoring decisions.
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Yang L, Chen J. Editorial: Machine learning and big data analytics in mood disorders. Front Psychiatry 2024; 15:1406826. [PMID: 38694001 PMCID: PMC11061508 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1406826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2024] [Accepted: 04/05/2024] [Indexed: 05/03/2024] Open
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- Lu Yang
- Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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- Clinical Research Center, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Psychotic Disorders, Shanghai, China
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Ponce-Valencia A, Jiménez-Rodríguez D, Hernández Morante JJ, Martínez Cortés C, Pérez-Sánchez H, Echevarría Pérez P. An Interpretable Machine Learning Approach to Predict Sensory Processing Sensitivity Trait in Nursing Students. Eur J Investig Health Psychol Educ 2024; 14:913-928. [PMID: 38667814 PMCID: PMC11049261 DOI: 10.3390/ejihpe14040059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2024] [Revised: 03/22/2024] [Accepted: 03/31/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024] Open
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Sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) is a personality trait that makes certain individuals excessively sensitive to stimuli. People carrying this trait are defined as Highly Sensitive People (HSP). The SPS trait is notably prevalent among nursing students and nurse staff. Although there are HSP diagnostic tools, there is little information about early detection. Therefore, the aim of this work was to develop a prediction model to identify HSP and provide an individualized nursing assessment. A total of 672 nursing students completed all the evaluations. In addition to the HSP diagnosis, emotional intelligence, communication skills, and conflict styles were evaluated. An interpretable machine learning model was trained to predict the SPS trait. We observed a 33% prevalence of HSP, which was higher in women and people with previous health training. HSP were characterized by greater emotional repair (p = 0.033), empathy (p = 0.030), respect (p = 0.038), and global communication skills (p = 0.036). Overall, sex and emotional intelligence dimensions are important to detect this trait, although personal characteristics should be considered. The present individualized prediction model could help to predict the presence of the SPS trait in nursing students, which may be useful in conducting intervention strategies to avoid the negative consequences and reinforce the positive ones of this trait.
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- Alicia Ponce-Valencia
- Faculty of Nursing, Universidad Católica de Murcia, Campus de Guadalupe, 30107 Murcia, Spain; (A.P.-V.); (P.E.P.)
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad de Almería, Carretera Sacramento s/n, 04120 Almería, Spain;
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- Faculty of Nursing, Universidad Católica de Murcia, Campus de Guadalupe, 30107 Murcia, Spain; (A.P.-V.); (P.E.P.)
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- Structural Bioinformatics and High-Performance Computing (BIO-HPC) Research Group, Universidad Católica de Murcia, Campus de Guadalupe, 30107 Murcia, Spain; (C.M.C.); (H.P.-S.)
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- Structural Bioinformatics and High-Performance Computing (BIO-HPC) Research Group, Universidad Católica de Murcia, Campus de Guadalupe, 30107 Murcia, Spain; (C.M.C.); (H.P.-S.)
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- Faculty of Nursing, Universidad Católica de Murcia, Campus de Guadalupe, 30107 Murcia, Spain; (A.P.-V.); (P.E.P.)
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Préfontaine I, Lanovaz MJ, Rivard M. Brief Report: Machine Learning for Estimating Prognosis of Children with Autism Receiving Early Behavioral Intervention-A Proof of Concept. J Autism Dev Disord 2024; 54:1605-1610. [PMID: 35764770 DOI: 10.1007/s10803-022-05641-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/06/2022] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Although early behavioral intervention is considered as empirically-supported for children with autism, estimating treatment prognosis is a challenge for practitioners. One potential solution is to use machine learning to guide the prediction of the response to intervention. Thus, our study compared five machine algorithms in estimating treatment prognosis on two outcomes (i.e., adaptive functioning and autistic symptoms) in children with autism receiving early behavioral intervention in a community setting. Each machine learning algorithm produced better predictions than random sampling on both outcomes. Those results indicate that machine learning is a promising approach to estimating prognosis in children with autism, but studies comparing these predictions with those produced by qualified practitioners remain necessary.
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- Isabelle Préfontaine
- École de psychoéducation, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada.
- École de Psychoéducation, Université de Montréal, succursale Centre-Ville, C.P. 6128, H3C 3J7, Montréal, QC, Canada.
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- École de psychoéducation, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Centre de recherche de l'institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Centre de recherche de l'institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Département de psychologie, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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Segalàs C, Cernadas E, Puialto M, Fernández-Delgado M, Arrojo M, Bertolin S, Real E, Menchón JM, Carracedo A, Tubío-Fungueiriño M, Alonso P, Fernández-Prieto M. Cognitive and clinical predictors of a long-term course in obsessive compulsive disorder: A machine learning approach in a prospective cohort study. J Affect Disord 2024; 350:648-655. [PMID: 38246282 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2024.01.157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2023] [Revised: 12/20/2023] [Accepted: 01/14/2024] [Indexed: 01/23/2024]
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BACKGROUND Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a disabling illness with a chronic course, yet data on long-term outcomes are scarce. This study aimed to examine the long-term course of OCD in patients treated with different approaches (drugs, psychotherapy, and psychosurgery) and to identify predictors of clinical outcome by machine learning. METHOD We included outpatients with OCD treated at our referral unit. Demographic and neuropsychological data were collected at baseline using standardized instruments. Clinical data were collected at baseline, 12 weeks after starting pharmacological treatment prescribed at study inclusion, and after follow-up. RESULTS Of the 60 outpatients included, with follow-up data available for 5-17 years (mean = 10.6 years), 40 (67.7 %) were considered non-responders to adequate treatment at the end of the study. The best machine learning model achieved a correlation of 0.63 for predicting the long-term Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) score by adding clinical response (to the first pharmacological treatment) to the baseline clinical and neuropsychological characteristics. LIMITATIONS Our main limitations were the sample size, modest in the context of traditional ML studies, and the sample composition, more representative of rather severe OCD cases than of patients from the general community. CONCLUSIONS Many patients with OCD showed persistent and disabling symptoms at the end of follow-up despite comprehensive treatment that could include medication, psychotherapy, and psychosurgery. Machine learning algorithms can predict the long-term course of OCD using clinical and cognitive information to optimize treatment options.
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- C Segalàs
- OCD Clinical and Research Unit, Psychiatry Department, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain; Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain; CIBERSAM (Centro de Investigación en Red de Salud Mental), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; Department of Clinical Sciences, Bellvitge Campus, University of Barcelona, 32 Barcelona, Spain
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- Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Intelixentes da USC (CiTIUS), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- OCD Clinical and Research Unit, Psychiatry Department, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Intelixentes da USC (CiTIUS), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Genetic Group, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- OCD Clinical and Research Unit, Psychiatry Department, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain; Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain; CIBERSAM (Centro de Investigación en Red de Salud Mental), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- OCD Clinical and Research Unit, Psychiatry Department, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain; Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain; CIBERSAM (Centro de Investigación en Red de Salud Mental), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- OCD Clinical and Research Unit, Psychiatry Department, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain; Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain; CIBERSAM (Centro de Investigación en Red de Salud Mental), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; Department of Clinical Sciences, Bellvitge Campus, University of Barcelona, 32 Barcelona, Spain
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- Genomics and Bioinformatics Group, Center for Research in Molecular Medicine and Chronic Diseases (CiMUS), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Genetics Group, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago (IDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Grupo de Medicina Xenómica, U-711, Centro de Investigación en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Fundación Pública Galega de Medicina Xenómica, Servicio Galego de Saúde (SERGAS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Genomics and Bioinformatics Group, Center for Research in Molecular Medicine and Chronic Diseases (CiMUS), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Fundación Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela (FIDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Genetics Group, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago (IDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
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- OCD Clinical and Research Unit, Psychiatry Department, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain; Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain; CIBERSAM (Centro de Investigación en Red de Salud Mental), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; Department of Clinical Sciences, Bellvitge Campus, University of Barcelona, 32 Barcelona, Spain
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- Genomics and Bioinformatics Group, Center for Research in Molecular Medicine and Chronic Diseases (CiMUS), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Fundación Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela (FIDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Genetics Group, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago (IDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Grupo de Medicina Xenómica, U-711, Centro de Investigación en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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Miley K, Bronstein MV, Ma S, Lee H, Green MF, Ventura J, Hooker CI, Nahum M, Vinogradov S. Trajectories and predictors of response to social cognition training in people with schizophrenia: A proof-of-concept machine learning study. Schizophr Res 2024; 266:92-99. [PMID: 38387253 PMCID: PMC11005939 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2024.02.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2023] [Revised: 12/15/2023] [Accepted: 02/17/2024] [Indexed: 02/24/2024]
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BACKGROUND Social cognition training (SCT) can improve social cognition deficits in schizophrenia. However, little is known about patterns of response to SCT or individual characteristics that predict response. METHODS 76 adults with schizophrenia randomized to receive 8-12 weeks of remotely-delivered SCT were included in this analysis. Social cognition was measured with a composite of six assessments. Latent class growth analyses identified trajectories of social cognitive response to SCT. Random forest and logistic regression models were trained to predict membership in the trajectory group that showed improvement from baseline measures including symptoms, functioning, motivation, and cognition. RESULTS Five trajectory groups were identified: Group 1 (29 %) began with slightly above average social cognition, and this ability significantly improved with SCT. Group 2 (9 %) had baseline social cognition approximately one standard deviation above the sample mean and did not improve with training. Groups 3 (18 %) and 4 (36 %) began with average to slightly below-average social cognition and showed non-significant trends toward improvement. Group 5 (8 %) began with social cognition approximately one standard deviation below the sample mean, and experienced significant deterioration in social cognition. The random forest model had the best performance, predicting Group 1 membership with an area under the curve of 0.73 (SD 0.24; 95 % CI [0.51-0.87]). CONCLUSIONS Findings suggest that there are distinct patterns of response to SCT in schizophrenia and that those with slightly above average social cognition at baseline may be most likely to experience gains. Results may inform future research seeking to individualize SCT treatment for schizophrenia.
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- Kathleen Miley
- HealthPartners Institute, Minneapolis, MN, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Minnesota Medical School, MN, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Minnesota Medical School, MN, USA
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- Institute for Health Informatics, University of Minnesota, MN, USA
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- Department of Research and Development, Posit Science Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA
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- VA Greater Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- School of Occupational Therapy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Minnesota Medical School, MN, USA
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Badinier J, Lopes R, Mastellari T, Fovet T, Williams SCR, Pruvo JP, Amad A. Clinical and neuroimaging predictors of benzodiazepine response in catatonia: A machine learning approach. J Psychiatr Res 2024; 172:300-306. [PMID: 38430659 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2024.02.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2023] [Revised: 01/24/2024] [Accepted: 02/20/2024] [Indexed: 03/05/2024]
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Catatonia is a well characterized psychomotor syndrome combining motor, behavioural and neurovegetative signs. Benzodiazepines are the first-choice treatment, effective in 70 % of cases. Currently, the factors associated with benzodiazepine resistance remain unknown. We aimed to develop machine learning models using clinical and neuroimaging data to predict benzodiazepine response in catatonic patients. This study examined a cohort of catatonic patients who underwent standardized clinical evaluation, 3 T brain MRI, and benzodiazepine trial. Based on clinical response, patients were classified as benzodiazepine responders or non-responders. Cortical thickness and regional brain volumes were measured. Two machine learning models (linear model and gradient boosting tree model) were developed to identify predictors of treatment response using clinical, demographic, and neuroimaging data. The cohort included 65 catatonic patients, comprising 30 benzodiazepine responders and 35 non-responders. Using clinical data alone, the linear model achieved 63% precision, 51% recall, a specificity of 61%, and 58% AUC, while the gradient boosting tree (GBT) model attained 46% precision, 60% recall, a specificity of 62% and 64% AUC. Incorporating neuroimaging data improved model performance, with the linear model achieving 66% precision, 57% recall, a specificity of 67%, and 70% AUC, and the GBT model attaining 50% precision, 50% recall, a specificity of 62% and 70% AUC. The integration of imaging data with demographic and clinical information significantly enhanced the predictive performance of the models. The duration of the catatonic syndrome, along with the presence of mitgehen (passive obedience) and immobility/stupor, and the volume of the right medial orbito-frontal cortex emerged as important factors in predicting non-response to benzodiazepines.
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- Jane Badinier
- Univ. Lille, Inserm, CHU Lille, U1172, LilNCog, Lille Neuroscience & Cognition, F-59000, Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, Inserm, CHU Lille, U1172, LilNCog, Lille Neuroscience & Cognition, F-59000, Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, Inserm, CHU Lille, U1172, LilNCog, Lille Neuroscience & Cognition, F-59000, Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, Inserm, CHU Lille, U1172, LilNCog, Lille Neuroscience & Cognition, F-59000, Lille, France
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Univ. Lille, Inserm, CHU Lille, U1172, LilNCog, Lille Neuroscience & Cognition, F-59000, Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, Inserm, CHU Lille, U1172, LilNCog, Lille Neuroscience & Cognition, F-59000, Lille, France; Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
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Zhang N, Chen S, Jiang K, Ge W, Im H, Guan S, Li Z, Wei C, Wang P, Zhu Y, Zhao G, Liu L, Chen C, Chang H, Wang Q. Individualized prediction of anxiety and depressive symptoms using gray matter volume in a non-clinical population. Cereb Cortex 2024; 34:bhae121. [PMID: 38584086 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhae121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2024] [Revised: 03/03/2024] [Accepted: 03/05/2024] [Indexed: 04/09/2024] Open
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Machine learning is an emerging tool in clinical psychology and neuroscience for the individualized prediction of psychiatric symptoms. However, its application in non-clinical populations is still in its infancy. Given the widespread morphological changes observed in psychiatric disorders, our study applies five supervised machine learning regression algorithms-ridge regression, support vector regression, partial least squares regression, least absolute shrinkage and selection operator regression, and Elastic-Net regression-to predict anxiety and depressive symptom scores. We base these predictions on the whole-brain gray matter volume in a large non-clinical sample (n = 425). Our results demonstrate that machine learning algorithms can effectively predict individual variability in anxiety and depressive symptoms, as measured by the Mood and Anxiety Symptoms Questionnaire. The most discriminative features contributing to the prediction models were primarily located in the prefrontal-parietal, temporal, visual, and sub-cortical regions (e.g. amygdala, hippocampus, and putamen). These regions showed distinct patterns for anxious arousal and high positive affect in three of the five models (partial least squares regression, support vector regression, and ridge regression). Importantly, these predictions were consistent across genders and robust to demographic variability (e.g. age, parental education, etc.). Our findings offer critical insights into the distinct brain morphological patterns underlying specific components of anxiety and depressive symptoms, supporting the existing tripartite theory from a neuroimaging perspective.
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- Ning Zhang
- School of Mathematical Sciences, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- Independent Researcher, United States
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- School of Mathematical Sciences, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
- Key Laboratory of Philosophy and Social Science of Anhui Province on Adolescent Mental Health and Crisis Intelligence Intervention, Hefei Normal University, Hefei, 230061, China
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Jankowsky K, Steger D, Schroeders U. Predicting Lifetime Suicide Attempts in a Community Sample of Adolescents Using Machine Learning Algorithms. Assessment 2024; 31:557-573. [PMID: 37092544 PMCID: PMC10903120 DOI: 10.1177/10731911231167490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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Suicide is a major global health concern and a prominent cause of death in adolescents. Previous research on suicide prediction has mainly focused on clinical or adult samples. To prevent suicides at an early stage, however, it is important to screen for risk factors in a community sample of adolescents. We compared the accuracy of logistic regressions, elastic net regressions, and gradient boosting machines in predicting suicide attempts by 17-year-olds in the Millennium Cohort Study (N = 7,347), combining a large set of self- and other-reported variables from different categories. Both machine learning algorithms outperformed logistic regressions and achieved similar balanced accuracies (.76 when using data 3 years before the self-reported lifetime suicide attempts and .85 when using data from the same measurement wave). We identified essential variables that should be considered when screening for suicidal behavior. Finally, we discuss the usefulness of complex machine learning models in suicide prediction.
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Pigoni A, Delvecchio G, Turtulici N, Madonna D, Pietrini P, Cecchetti L, Brambilla P. Machine learning and the prediction of suicide in psychiatric populations: a systematic review. Transl Psychiatry 2024; 14:140. [PMID: 38461283 PMCID: PMC10925059 DOI: 10.1038/s41398-024-02852-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2023] [Revised: 02/22/2024] [Accepted: 02/22/2024] [Indexed: 03/11/2024] Open
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Machine learning (ML) has emerged as a promising tool to enhance suicidal prediction. However, as many large-sample studies mixed psychiatric and non-psychiatric populations, a formal psychiatric diagnosis emerged as a strong predictor of suicidal risk, overshadowing more subtle risk factors specific to distinct populations. To overcome this limitation, we conducted a systematic review of ML studies evaluating suicidal behaviors exclusively in psychiatric clinical populations. A systematic literature search was performed from inception through November 17, 2022 on PubMed, EMBASE, and Scopus following the PRISMA guidelines. Original research using ML techniques to assess the risk of suicide or predict suicide attempts in the psychiatric population were included. An assessment for bias risk was performed using the transparent reporting of a multivariable prediction model for individual prognosis or diagnosis (TRIPOD) guidelines. About 1032 studies were retrieved, and 81 satisfied the inclusion criteria and were included for qualitative synthesis. Clinical and demographic features were the most frequently employed and random forest, support vector machine, and convolutional neural network performed better in terms of accuracy than other algorithms when directly compared. Despite heterogeneity in procedures, most studies reported an accuracy of 70% or greater based on features such as previous attempts, severity of the disorder, and pharmacological treatments. Although the evidence reported is promising, ML algorithms for suicidal prediction still present limitations, including the lack of neurobiological and imaging data and the lack of external validation samples. Overcoming these issues may lead to the development of models to adopt in clinical practice. Further research is warranted to boost a field that holds the potential to critically impact suicide mortality.
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- Alessandro Pigoni
- Social and Affective Neuroscience Group, MoMiLab, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Lucca, Italy
- Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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- MoMiLab, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Lucca, Italy
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- Social and Affective Neuroscience Group, MoMiLab, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Lucca, Italy
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- Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy.
- Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
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Sone D, Young A, Shinagawa S, Tsugawa S, Iwata Y, Tarumi R, Ogyu K, Honda S, Ochi R, Matsushita K, Ueno F, Hondo N, Koreki A, Torres-Carmona E, Mar W, Chan N, Koizumi T, Kato H, Kusudo K, de Luca V, Gerretsen P, Remington G, Onaya M, Noda Y, Uchida H, Mimura M, Shigeta M, Graff-Guerrero A, Nakajima S. Disease Progression Patterns of Brain Morphology in Schizophrenia: More Progressed Stages in Treatment Resistance. Schizophr Bull 2024; 50:393-402. [PMID: 38007605 PMCID: PMC10919766 DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbad164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND HYPOTHESIS Given the heterogeneity and possible disease progression in schizophrenia, identifying the neurobiological subtypes and progression patterns in each patient may lead to novel biomarkers. Here, we adopted data-driven machine-learning techniques to identify the progression patterns of brain morphological changes in schizophrenia and investigate the association with treatment resistance. STUDY DESIGN In this cross-sectional multicenter study, we included 177 patients with schizophrenia, characterized by treatment response or resistance, with 3D T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging. Cortical thickness and subcortical volumes calculated by FreeSurfer were converted into z scores using 73 healthy controls data. The Subtype and Stage Inference (SuStaIn) algorithm was used for unsupervised machine-learning analysis. STUDY RESULTS SuStaIn identified 3 different subtypes: (1) subcortical volume reduction (SC) type (73 patients), in which volume reduction of subcortical structures occurs first and moderate cortical thinning follows, (2) globus pallidus hypertrophy and cortical thinning (GP-CX) type (42 patients), in which globus pallidus hypertrophy initially occurs followed by progressive cortical thinning, and (3) cortical thinning (pure CX) type (39 patients), in which thinning of the insular and lateral temporal lobe cortices primarily happens. The remaining 23 patients were assigned to baseline stage of progression (no change). SuStaIn also found 84 stages of progression, and treatment-resistant schizophrenia showed significantly more progressed stages than treatment-responsive cases (P = .001). The GP-CX type presented earlier stages than the pure CX type (P = .009). CONCLUSIONS The brain morphological progressions in schizophrenia can be classified into 3 subtypes, and treatment resistance was associated with more progressed stages, which may suggest a novel biomarker.
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- Daichi Sone
- Department of Psychiatry, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Koehler JC, Dong MS, Song DY, Bong G, Koutsouleris N, Yoo H, Falter-Wagner CM. Classifying autism in a clinical population based on motion synchrony: a proof-of-concept study using real-life diagnostic interviews. Sci Rep 2024; 14:5663. [PMID: 38453972 PMCID: PMC10920641 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-56098-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2023] [Accepted: 03/01/2024] [Indexed: 03/09/2024] Open
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Predictive modeling strategies are increasingly studied as a means to overcome clinical bottlenecks in the diagnostic classification of autism spectrum disorder. However, while some findings are promising in the light of diagnostic marker research, many of these approaches lack the scalability for adequate and effective translation to everyday clinical practice. In this study, our aim was to explore the use of objective computer vision video analysis of real-world autism diagnostic interviews in a clinical sample of children and young individuals in the transition to adulthood to predict diagnosis. Specifically, we trained a support vector machine learning model on interpersonal synchrony data recorded in Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS-2) interviews of patient-clinician dyads. Our model was able to classify dyads involving an autistic patient (n = 56) with a balanced accuracy of 63.4% against dyads including a patient with other psychiatric diagnoses (n = 38). Further analyses revealed no significant associations between our classification metrics with clinical ratings. We argue that, given the above-chance performance of our classifier in a highly heterogeneous sample both in age and diagnosis, with few adjustments this highly scalable approach presents a viable route for future diagnostic marker research in autism.
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- Jana Christina Koehler
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
- Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea
- Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
- Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
- Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea
- Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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Wang X, Yan C, Yang PY, Xia Z, Cai XL, Wang Y, Kwok SC, Chan RCK. Unveiling the potential of machine learning in schizophrenia diagnosis: A meta-analytic study of task-based neuroimaging data. Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2024; 78:157-168. [PMID: 38013639 DOI: 10.1111/pcn.13625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2023] [Revised: 11/01/2023] [Accepted: 11/24/2023] [Indexed: 11/29/2023]
Abstract
The emergence of machine learning (ML) techniques has opened up new avenues for identifying biomarkers associated with schizophrenia (SCZ) using task-related fMRI (t-fMRI) designs. To evaluate the effectiveness of this approach, we conducted a comprehensive meta-analysis of 31 t-fMRI studies using a bivariate model. Our findings revealed a high overall sensitivity of 0.83 and specificity of 0.82 for t-fMRI studies. Notably, neuropsychological domains modulated the classification performance, with selective attention demonstrating a significantly higher specificity than working memory (β = 0.98, z = 2.11, P = 0.04). Studies involving older, chronic patients with SCZ reported higher sensitivity (P <0.015) and specificity (P <0.001) than those involving younger, first-episode patients or high-risk individuals for psychosis. Additionally, we found that the severity of negative symptoms was positively associated with the specificity of the classification model (β = 7.19, z = 2.20, P = 0.03). Taken together, these results support the potential of using task-based fMRI data in combination with machine learning techniques to identify biomarkers related to symptom outcomes in SCZ, providing a promising avenue for improving diagnostic accuracy and treatment efficacy. Future attempts to deploy ML classification should consider the factors of algorithm choice, data quality and quantity, as well as issues related to generalization.
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- Xuan Wang
- Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics (MOE&STCSM), Affiliated Mental Health Center (ECNU), School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
- Shanghai Changning Mental Health Center, Shanghai, China
- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory; CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics (MOE&STCSM), Affiliated Mental Health Center (ECNU), School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
- Shanghai Changning Mental Health Center, Shanghai, China
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- Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics (MOE&STCSM), Affiliated Mental Health Center (ECNU), School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Institute of Brain Science and Department of Physiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China
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- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory; CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics (MOE&STCSM), Affiliated Mental Health Center (ECNU), School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
- Shanghai Changning Mental Health Center, Shanghai, China
- Phylo-Cognition Laboratory, Division of Natural and Applied Sciences, Data Science Research Center, Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan, China
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory; CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Wucherpfennig F, Schwartz B, Rubel J. Towards a taxonomy of mechanisms of change? Findings from an expert survey on the association between common factors and specific techniques in psychotherapy. Psychother Res 2024; 34:398-411. [PMID: 37127943 DOI: 10.1080/10503307.2023.2206051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2023] [Accepted: 04/19/2023] [Indexed: 05/03/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVE In the present study, we used structural equation modeling (SEM) to investigate the complex relationship between common factors, i.e., mechanisms of change, and specific factors, i.e., therapeutic techniques. METHOD N = 256 psychotherapy experts were asked to rate the appropriateness of 14 techniques commonly used in psychotherapy to facilitate five different common factors - resource activation, motivational clarification, self-management & emotion regulation, social competence, and therapeutic relationship. Using SEM, we defined techniques as indicators and common factors as latent variables. Data were split randomly into two subsets. Indicators were selected if three a priori defined criteria were met based on training data (n = 128). Subsequently, the goodness of model fit was assessed in the test data (n = 128). RESULTS The proposed model revealed adequate fit. All factor loadings were theoretically sound and significant in magnitude. Findings suggest that psychotherapy experts discriminate between common factors by their various associations with therapeutic techniques. CONCLUSION Suggestions are made, how therapeutic techniques are to be used to facilitate desirable change in the patient. Our model is a step towards a taxonomy of mechanisms of change that may help to improve research-informed decision-making.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Trier, Trier, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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Braun U, Hennig O, Forstner J, Gerhardt S, Deffaa M, Hirjak D, Deuschle M, Koopmann A, Wisch C, Fritz M, Ende G, Tost H, Schöfer P, Bischoff S, Janta M, Kiefer F, Schmahl C, Banaschewski T, Meyer-Lindenberg A. [Diagnosis and admission center : Establishment and evaluation of an integrated translational infrastructure for clinical psychiatric research]. DER NERVENARZT 2024; 95:254-261. [PMID: 38381168 PMCID: PMC10914871 DOI: 10.1007/s00115-024-01609-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/14/2023] [Indexed: 02/22/2024]
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The routine in-depth characterization of patients with methods of clinical and scale-based examination, neuropsychology, based on biomaterials, and sensor-based information opens up transformative possibilities on the way to personalized diagnostics, treatment and prevention in psychiatry, psychotherapy, and psychosomatics. Effective integration of the additional temporal and logistical effort into everyday care as well as the acceptance by patients are critical to the success of such an approach but there is little evidence on this to date. We report here on the establishment of the Diagnosis and Admission Center (DAZ) at the Central Institute of Mental Health (ZI) in Mannheim. The DAZ is an outpatient unit upstream of other care structures for clinical and scientific phenotyping across diagnoses as a starting point for data-driven, individualized pathways to further treatment, diagnostics or research. We describe the functions, goals, and implementation of the newly created clinical scientific translational structure, provide an overview of the patient populations it has reached, and provide data on its acceptance. In this context, the close integration with downstream clinical processes enables a better coordinated and demand-oriented allocation. In addition, DAZ enables a faster start of disorder-specific diagnostics and treatment. Since its launch in April 2021 up to the end of 2022, 1021 patients underwent psychiatric evaluation at DAZ during a pilot phase. The patient sample corresponded to a representative sample from standard care and the newly established processes were regarded as helpful by patients. In summary, the DAZ uniquely combines the interests and needs of patient with the collection of scientifically relevant data.
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- Urs Braun
- Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Medizinische Fakultät Mannheim, Universität Heidelberg, J5, 68159, Mannheim, Deutschland.
- Deutsches Zentrum für Psychische Gesundheit (DZPG), Mannheim-Heidelberg-Ulm, Deutschland.
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- Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Medizinische Fakultät Mannheim, Universität Heidelberg, J5, 68159, Mannheim, Deutschland
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- Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Medizinische Fakultät Mannheim, Universität Heidelberg, J5, 68159, Mannheim, Deutschland
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- Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Medizinische Fakultät Mannheim, Universität Heidelberg, J5, 68159, Mannheim, Deutschland
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- Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Medizinische Fakultät Mannheim, Universität Heidelberg, J5, 68159, Mannheim, Deutschland
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- Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Medizinische Fakultät Mannheim, Universität Heidelberg, J5, 68159, Mannheim, Deutschland
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- Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Medizinische Fakultät Mannheim, Universität Heidelberg, J5, 68159, Mannheim, Deutschland
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- Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Medizinische Fakultät Mannheim, Universität Heidelberg, J5, 68159, Mannheim, Deutschland
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- Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Medizinische Fakultät Mannheim, Universität Heidelberg, J5, 68159, Mannheim, Deutschland
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- Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Medizinische Fakultät Mannheim, Universität Heidelberg, J5, 68159, Mannheim, Deutschland
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- Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Medizinische Fakultät Mannheim, Universität Heidelberg, J5, 68159, Mannheim, Deutschland
- Deutsches Zentrum für Psychische Gesundheit (DZPG), Mannheim-Heidelberg-Ulm, Deutschland
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- Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Medizinische Fakultät Mannheim, Universität Heidelberg, J5, 68159, Mannheim, Deutschland
- Deutsches Zentrum für Psychische Gesundheit (DZPG), Mannheim-Heidelberg-Ulm, Deutschland
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- Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Medizinische Fakultät Mannheim, Universität Heidelberg, J5, 68159, Mannheim, Deutschland
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- Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Medizinische Fakultät Mannheim, Universität Heidelberg, J5, 68159, Mannheim, Deutschland
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- Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Medizinische Fakultät Mannheim, Universität Heidelberg, J5, 68159, Mannheim, Deutschland
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- Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Medizinische Fakultät Mannheim, Universität Heidelberg, J5, 68159, Mannheim, Deutschland
- Deutsches Zentrum für Psychische Gesundheit (DZPG), Mannheim-Heidelberg-Ulm, Deutschland
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- Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Medizinische Fakultät Mannheim, Universität Heidelberg, J5, 68159, Mannheim, Deutschland
- Deutsches Zentrum für Psychische Gesundheit (DZPG), Mannheim-Heidelberg-Ulm, Deutschland
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- Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Medizinische Fakultät Mannheim, Universität Heidelberg, J5, 68159, Mannheim, Deutschland
- Deutsches Zentrum für Psychische Gesundheit (DZPG), Mannheim-Heidelberg-Ulm, Deutschland
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- Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Medizinische Fakultät Mannheim, Universität Heidelberg, J5, 68159, Mannheim, Deutschland
- Deutsches Zentrum für Psychische Gesundheit (DZPG), Mannheim-Heidelberg-Ulm, Deutschland
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