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Diagnostic heterogeneity in psychiatry: towards an empirical solution

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Title
Diagnostic heterogeneity in psychiatry: towards an empirical solution
Published in
BMC Medicine, September 2013
DOI 10.1186/1741-7015-11-201
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Authors

Klaas J Wardenaar, Peter de Jonge

Abstract

The launch of the 5th version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) has sparked a debate about the current approach to psychiatric classification. The most basic and enduring problem of the DSM is that its classifications are heterogeneous clinical descriptions rather than valid diagnoses, which hampers scientific progress. Therefore, more homogeneous evidence-based diagnostic entities should be developed. To this end, data-driven techniques, such as latent class- and factor analyses, have already been widely applied. However, these techniques are insufficient to account for all relevant levels of heterogeneity, among real-life individuals. There is heterogeneity across persons (p:for example, subgroups), across symptoms (s:for example, symptom dimensions) and over time (t:for example, course-trajectories) and these cannot be regarded separately. Psychiatry should upgrade to techniques that can analyze multi-mode (p-by-s-by-t) data and can incorporate all of these levels at the same time to identify optimal homogeneous subgroups (for example, groups with similar profiles/connectivity of symptomatology and similar course). For these purposes, Multimode Principal Component Analysis and (Mixture)-Graphical Modeling may be promising techniques.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 119 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 32 26%
Researcher 18 14%
Student > Master 16 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 8%
Student > Bachelor 9 7%
Other 22 18%
Unknown 18 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 43 34%
Medicine and Dentistry 23 18%
Neuroscience 12 10%
Computer Science 4 3%
Engineering 4 3%
Other 16 13%
Unknown 23 18%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 35. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 November 2019.
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