Category Archives: My work

Media reaction to our new bereavement paper

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The KU Leuven press office did an amazing job with the press release of our new paper “From Loss to Loneliness: The Relationship Between Bereavement and Depressive Symptoms” (PDF) that was published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology today. » Fried, E. I., Bockting, C., Arjadi, R., Borsboom, D., Tuerlinckx, F., Cramer, A., Epskamp, S.,… Read more »

New paper on life stress and depression symptoms

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Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica just published our paper “The differential influence of life stress on individual symptoms of depression”! » Fried, E. I., Nesse, R. M., Guille, C., & Sen, S. (2015). The differential influence of life stress on individual symptoms of depression. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 1-7, EPub ahead of print. (PDF).

New paper on symptom heterogeneity

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The Journal of Affective Disorders just published our second STAR*D paper! » Fried, E. I., & Nesse, R. M. (2015). Depression is not a consistent syndrome: An investigation of unique symptom patterns in the STAR*D study. Journal of Affective Disorders, 172, 96–102. (PDF)

Nature correspondence published

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Our commentary regarding the NIMH’s decision to solely fund research investigating the neurobiological roots of mental disorders was published in today’s issue of Nature. » Fried, E. I., Tuerlinckx, F., & Borsboom, D. (2014). Mental health: more than neurobiology. Nature, 508, 458. (PDF)

Paper on depression symptoms and impairment

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The paper I wrote together with Randolph Nesse about individual symptoms of depression and their differential impact on impairment of psychosocial functioning was just published in PLoS ONE. » Fried, E. I. & Nesse, R. M. (2014). The Impact of Individual Depressive Symptoms on Impairment of Psychosocial Functioning. PLoS ONE, 9(2), e90311. (PDF)

Paper on depression symptoms and risk factors

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Check out our new paper “Depression is more than the sum-score of its parts: individual DSM symptoms have different risk factors” in Psychological Medicine! » Fried, E. I., Nesse, R. M., Zivin, K., Guille. C., & Sen, S. (2013). Depression is more than the sum-score of its parts: individual DSM symptoms have different risk factors…. Read more »