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ArticlePloS one2022

Exploring personalized psychotherapy for depression: A system dynamics approach.

Andrea K Wittenborn, Niyousha Hosseinichimeh

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Article in PloS one, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. The effect of sleep-wake behaviors on the onset of mania in youth: A computational model.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2026
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  3. [Progress on the application of system dynamics model in the field of health management].Zhejiang da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Zhejiang University. Medical sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Andrea K WittenbornDepartment of Human Development and Family Studies, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0003-4608-0635
Niyousha HosseinichimehDepartment of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America.
Michigan State University · USVirginia Tech · US

Funding

Modeling the Dynamics of Adult DepressionR21MH100515 · NIMH · VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INST AND ST UNIV · PI WITTENBORN, ANDREA K · 2013 to 2014
$377k
NIMH NIH HHS R21 MH100515
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Depressive disorders are the leading contributor to medical disability, yet only 22% of depressed patients receive adequate treatment in a given year. Response to treatment varies widely among individuals with depression, and poor response to one treatment does not signal poor response to others. In fact, half of patients who do not recover from a first-line psychotherapy will recover from a second option. Attempts to personalize psychotherapy to patient characteristics have produced better outcomes than usual care, but research on personalized psychotherapy is still in its infancy. The present study explores a new method for personalizing psychotherapy for depression through simulation modeling. In this study, we developed a system dynamics simulation model of depression based on one of the major mechanisms of depression in the literature and investigated the trend of depressive symptoms under different conditions and treatments. Our simulation outputs show the importance of individualized services with appropriate timing, and reveal a new method for personalizing psychotherapy to heterogeneous individuals. Future research is needed to expand the model to include additional mechanisms of depression.

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DepressionPsychotherapyHumansResearch DesignTreatment Outcome

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PMID36301962
PMCPMC9612473
OpenAlexW4307441202

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