Toward biophysical markers of depression vulnerability
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Author(s)
Pinotsis, DA
Fitzgerald, S
See, C
Sementsova, A
Widge, AS
Date Issued
October 18, 2022
Journal
Frontiers in Psychiatry
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Frontiers
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Pinotsis DA, Fitzgerald S, See C, Sementsova A and Widge AS (2022) Toward biophysical markers of depression vulnerability. Front. Psychiatry 13:938694.
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Abstract
A major difficulty with treating psychiatric disorders is their heterogeneity: different neural causes can lead to the same phenotype. To address this, we propose describing the underlying pathophysiology in terms of interpretable, biophysical parameters of a neural model derived from the electroencephalogram. We analyzed data from a small patient cohort of patients with depression and controls. Using DCM, we constructed biophysical models that describe neural dynamics in a cortical network activated during a task that is used to assess depression state. We show that biophysical model parameters are biomarkers, that is, variables that allow subtyping of depression at a biological level. They yield a low dimensional, interpretable feature space that allowed description of differences between individual patients with depressive symptoms. They could capture internal heterogeneity/variance of depression state and achieve significantly better classification than commonly used EEG features. Our work is a proof of concept that a combination of biophysical models and machine learning may outperform earlier approaches based on classical statistics and raw brain data.
MIT Department
Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.938694
