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Some mental disorders are based on networks, others on latent variables

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2010

Don Ross
Don Ross
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School of Economics, University of Cape Town, Private bag, Rondebosch 7701, Cape Town, South Africa. don.ross@uct.ac.zahttp://uct.academia.edu/DonRoss
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Abstract

Cramer et al. persuasively conceptualize major depressive disorder (MDD) and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) as network disorders, rejecting latent variable accounts. But how does their radical picture generalize across the suite of mental and personality disorders? Addictions are Axis I disorders that may be better characterized by latent variables. Their comorbidity relationships could be captured by inserting them as nodes in a super-network of Axis I conditions.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 2-3 , June 2010 , pp. 166 - 167
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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