Mental disorders as complex networks: An introduction and overview of a network approach to psychopathology

Clinical Neuropsychiatry

Volumn 13, Issue 4-5, 2016, Pages 68-76

  Nuijten, Michèle B ^a   Deserno, Marie K ^b   Cramer, Angélique O J ^b   Borsboom, Denny ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Latent variables; Major depression; Mental disorders; Network models; Network perspective; Observable symptoms; Psychopathology

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EXPERIENCE; FIGHTING; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

EID: 84997707942     PISSN: 17244935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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