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ArticleTranslational psychiatry2018

Patterns of schizophrenia symptoms: hidden structure in the PANSS questionnaire.

Jérémy Lefort-Besnard, Gaël Varoquaux, Birgit Derntl, Oliver Gruber, Andre Aleman, Renaud Jardri, Iris Sommer, Bertrand Thirion, Danilo Bzdok

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Article in Translational psychiatry, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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Jérémy Lefort-BesnardDepartment of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8033-4953
Gaël VaroquauxParietal Team, INRIA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
Birgit DerntlDepartment of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
Oliver GruberDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
Andre AlemanBCN Neuroimaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Renaud JardriUniv Lille, CNRS UMR9193, SCALab & CHU Lille, Fontan Hospital, CURE platform, 59000, Lille, France.
Iris SommerUMC Utrecht Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Bertrand ThirionParietal Team, INRIA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
Danilo BzdokDepartment of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. danilo.bzdok@rwth-aachen.de.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The clinical presentation of patients with schizophrenia has long been described to be very heterogeneous. Coherent symptom profiles can probably be directly derived from behavioral manifestations quantified in medical questionnaires. The combination of machine learning algorithms and an international multi-site dataset (n = 218 patients) identified distinctive patterns underlying schizophrenia from the widespread PANSS questionnaire. Our clustering approach revealed a negative symptom patient group as well as a moderate and a severe group, giving further support for the existence of schizophrenia subtypes. Additionally, emerging regression analyses uncovered the most clinically predictive questionnaire items. Small subsets of PANSS items showed convincing forecasting performance in single patients. These item subsets encompassed the entire symptom spectrum confirming that the different facets of schizophrenia can be shown to enable improved clinical diagnosis and medical action in patients. Finally, we did not find evidence for complicated relationships among the PANSS items in our sample. Our collective results suggest that identifying best treatment for a given individual may be grounded in subtle item combinations that transcend the long-trusted positive, negative, and cognitive categories.

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