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New paper: the 52 symptoms of major depression

Eiko    November 25, 2016 August 16, 2017    No Comments on New paper: the 52 symptoms of major depression

I published a new paper in the Journal of Affective Disorders entitled “The 52 symptoms of major depression: Lack of content overlap among seven common depression scales” (PDF). The paper… Read more »

Depression, Measurement, My work   

New paper on responsiveness of depression rating scales

Eiko    November 25, 2016 August 16, 2017    No Comments on New paper on responsiveness of depression rating scales

After reviewing the paper “The relative responsiveness of test instruments can be estimated using a meta-analytic approach: an illustration with treatments for depression” by Kounali et al. 2016, the editor… Read more »

Depression, Measurement, My work   

New commentary on problems with latent class analysis in depression research

Eiko    November 25, 2016 August 16, 2017    No Comments on New commentary on problems with latent class analysis in depression research

We have a new commentary in Molecular Psychiatry entitled “Problems with latent class analysis to detect data-driven subtypes of depression” (PDF; together with the fantastic Hanna van Loo, Rob Wanders… Read more »

Methodology, My work   

New network paper on comorbidity between mood and anxiety disorders

Eiko    November 25, 2016 August 16, 2017    No Comments on New network paper on comorbidity between mood and anxiety disorders

We have a new network paper out in Psychological Medicine entitled “Network Analysis of Depression and Anxiety Symptom Relations in a Psychiatric Sample” (PDF). I tend to think of the… Read more »

Mental illness, My work, Network models   

Call for papers on PTSD symptomics

Eiko    September 27, 2016 August 16, 2017    No Comments on Call for papers on PTSD symptomics

I am very happy to announce that Cherie Armour and me are organizing a special issue for the European Journal of Psychotraumatology, together with the editor-in-chief Miranda Olff. In summary,… Read more »

Scientific journals   

Ketamine as promising treatment for suicidal thoughts?

Eiko    August 16, 2016 August 16, 2017    7 Comments on Ketamine as promising treatment for suicidal thoughts?

Imagine you are a group of scientists and want to find out whether a novel drug X works on a specific problem Y. You run the following study: You enroll… Read more »

Clinical Trials, Depression, Papers   

Adjunctive Nutraceuticals as depression treatment

Eiko    August 13, 2016 June 6, 2018    1 Comment on Adjunctive Nutraceuticals as depression treatment

(Series: critical commentaries on depression trials. Prior posts: 1, 2, 3, 4) Antidepressants only marginally outperform placebos (Khan & Brown, 2015) – which has led to a number of novel… Read more »

Clinical Trials, Depression, Papers   

Hyperthermia as depression treatment

Eiko    July 20, 2016 August 16, 2017    3 Comments on Hyperthermia as depression treatment

A few months back, a study was published in JAMA Psychiatry claiming that whole-body hyperthermia is an effective treatment for depression (UPDATE: the paper was published in full now on… Read more »

Clinical Trials, Depression, Papers   

Adjunctive Brexpiprazole as depression treatment?

Eiko    July 20, 2016 August 16, 2017    2 Comments on Adjunctive Brexpiprazole as depression treatment?

Dr. Fava and colleagues have published an antidepressant trial on adjunctive Brexpiprazole, a novel atypical antipsychotic drug that was developed to treat schizophrenia, in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. The… Read more »

Clinical Trials, Depression, Papers   

Is Seasonal Affective Disorder really just a “Folk Construct”?

Eiko    April 19, 2016 August 16, 2017    No Comments on Is Seasonal Affective Disorder really just a “Folk Construct”?

Unpublished commentary. PDF, DOI 10.13140/RG.2.1.5149.7362. By: Eiko I. Fried, University of Leuven, Belgium Lauren M. Bylsma, University of Pittsburgh, USA Randolph M. Nesse, Arizona State University, USA After submitting the… Read more »

Depression, Papers   

Common problems of factors models in psychopathology research

Eiko    March 19, 2016 August 16, 2017    4 Comments on Common problems of factors models in psychopathology research

I recently stumbled across the paper “A metastructural model of mental disorders and pathological personality traits”, authored by Aidan Wright and Leonard Simms in 2015. I enjoyed reading it: it’s… Read more »

Papers, Structural equation models   

Prescribing antidepressants to depressed pregnant women

Eiko    February 27, 2016 August 16, 2017    No Comments on Prescribing antidepressants to depressed pregnant women

Dr Payne, director of the Women’s Mood Disorders Center and an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University, has written a commentary on the website of… Read more »

Depression, Policy   

Common depression scales are neither unidimensional nor measurement invariant

Eiko    February 1, 2016 August 16, 2017    1 Comment on Common depression scales are neither unidimensional nor measurement invariant

We published a new study in Psychological Assessment a few days ago, and I would like to take the time to explain what these results imply. You can find the… Read more »

Depression, My work, Structural equation models   

Molecular Psychiatry commentary: Fried & Kievit 2015

Eiko    December 16, 2015 August 16, 2017    No Comments on Molecular Psychiatry commentary: Fried & Kievit 2015

On December 15th, Molecular Psychiatry published our commentary “The volumes of subcortical regions in depressed and healthy individuals are strikingly similar: a reinterpretation of the results by Schmaal et al”…. Read more »

Biomarkers, Depression, My work   

Overinterpretation of SSRI study results: Halaris et al. 2015

Eiko    December 11, 2015 August 16, 2017    3 Comments on Overinterpretation of SSRI study results: Halaris et al. 2015

Halaris and colleagues published a paper in the Journal of Psychiatric Research in which they studied the impact of the SSRI antidepressant escitalopram (ESC) in a group of 30 depressed… Read more »

Biomarkers, Clinical Trials, Depression, Papers   
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