ArticleBipolar disorders2021
Can network analysis of self-reported psychopathology shed light on the core phenomenology of bipolar disorders in adolescents and young adults?
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- Addressing the unmet needs of bipolar disorder in Australia and beyond.The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
- Insomnia moderates the association between psychotic-like experiences and suicidal ideation in a non-clinical population: a network analysis.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2024Article
- Understanding of Depressive Symptomatology across Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder: A Network Analysis.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
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- Dimensions of psychopathology associated with psychotic-like experiences: Findings from the network analysis in a nonclinical sample.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2023Article
- Rates and associations of relapse over 5 years of 2649 people with bipolar disorder: a retrospective UK cohort study.International journal of bipolar disorders · 2023Article
- Can daily actigraphic profiles distinguish between different mood states in inpatients with bipolar disorder? An observational study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Baseline depressive symptoms as predictors of efficacy and tolerability of the treatment with duloxetine: a network analysis approach.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Dynamic networks of psychological symptoms, impairment, substance use, and social support: The evolution of psychopathology among emerging adults.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2022Article
- Days out of role and somatic, anxious-depressive, hypo-manic, and psychotic-like symptom dimensions in a community sample of young adults.Translational psychiatry · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectivesNetwork analysis is increasingly applied to psychopathology research. We used it to examine the core phenomenology of emerging bipolar disorder (BD I and II) and 'at risk' presentations (major depression with a family history of BD). METHODOLOGY: The study sample comprised a community cohort of 1867 twin and nontwin siblings (57% female; mean age ~26) who had completed self-report ratings of (i) depression-like, hypomanic-like and psychotic-like experiences; (ii) family history of BD; and (iii) were assessed for mood and psychotic syndromes using the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI). Symptom networks were compared for recent onset BD versus other cohort members and then for individuals at risk of BD (depression with/without a family history of BD).
resultsThe four key symptoms that differentiated recent onset BD from other cohort members were: anergia, psychomotor speed, hypersomnia and (less) loss of confidence. The four key symptoms that differentiated individuals at high risk of BD from unipolar depression were anergia, psychomotor speed, impaired concentration and hopelessness. However, the latter network was less stable and more error prone.
conclusionsWe are encouraged by the overlaps between our findings and those from two recent publications reporting network analyses of BD psychopathology, especially as the studies recruited from different populations and employed different network models. However, the advantages of applying network analysis to youth mental health cohorts (which include many individuals with multimorbidity) must be weighed against the disadvantages including basic issues such as judgements regarding the selection of items for inclusion in network models.
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