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An agenda for symptom-based research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2010

William Fleeson ,
R. Michael Furr  and
Elizabeth Mayfield Arnold
William Fleeson
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109. fleesonw@wfu.eduhttp://www.wfu.edu/psychology/faculty/fleeson.htmlfurrrm@wfu.eduhttp://psych.wfu.edu/furr/earnold@wfubmc.eduhttp://www2.wfubmc.edu/psychiatry/Faculty/physician_info.htm?PhysicianID=653
R. Michael Furr
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109. fleesonw@wfu.eduhttp://www.wfu.edu/psychology/faculty/fleeson.htmlfurrrm@wfu.eduhttp://psych.wfu.edu/furr/earnold@wfubmc.eduhttp://www2.wfubmc.edu/psychiatry/Faculty/physician_info.htm?PhysicianID=653
Elizabeth Mayfield Arnold
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109. fleesonw@wfu.eduhttp://www.wfu.edu/psychology/faculty/fleeson.htmlfurrrm@wfu.eduhttp://psych.wfu.edu/furr/earnold@wfubmc.eduhttp://www2.wfubmc.edu/psychiatry/Faculty/physician_info.htm?PhysicianID=653
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Abstract

The network approach proposed by Cramer et al. suggests fascinating new directions of research on mental disorders. Research is needed to find evidence for the causal power of symptoms, to examine symptoms thoroughly, to investigate individual differences in edge strength, to discover etiological processes for each symptom, and to determine whether and why symptoms cohere into distinct mental disorders.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 2-3 , June 2010 , pp. 157
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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