Personalized Network Modeling in Psychopathology: The Importance of Contemporaneous and Temporal Connections

Overview

Journal Clin Psychol Sci

Publisher Sage Publications

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2018 May 29

PMID 29805918

Citations 107

Authors

Sacha Epskamp

Claudia D van Borkulo

Date C van der Veen

Michelle N Servaas

Adela-Maria Isvoranu

Harriette Riese

Angelique O J Cramer

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Abstract

Recent literature has introduced (a) the network perspective to psychology and (b) collection of time series data to capture symptom fluctuations and other time varying factors in daily life. Combining these trends allows for the estimation of intraindividual network structures. We argue that these networks can be directly applied in clinical research and practice as hypothesis generating structures. Two networks can be computed: a , in which one investigates if symptoms (or other relevant variables) predict one another over time, and a , in which one investigates if symptoms predict one another in the same window of measurement. The contemporaneous network is a partial correlation network, which is emerging in the analysis of cross-sectional data but is not yet utilized in the analysis of time series data. We explain the importance of partial correlation networks and exemplify the network structures on time series data of a psychiatric patient.

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