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The network perspective will help, but is comorbidity the question?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2010

Wendy Johnson  and
Lars Penke
Wendy Johnson
Affiliation:
Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, and Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, United Kingdom. wendy.johnson@ed.ac.uk Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0213. lars.penke@ed.ac.uk
Lars Penke
Affiliation:
Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, and Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, United Kingdom. wendy.johnson@ed.ac.uk
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Abstract

Latent variable modeling has revealed important conundrums in the DSM classification system. We agree that the network perspective has potential to inspire new insights and resolve some of these conundrums. We note, however, that alone it cannot really help us understand etiology. Etiology, not comorbidity, is the fundamental question.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 2-3 , June 2010 , pp. 162 - 163
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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