Major depressive disorder as a nonlinear dynamic system: bimodality in the frequency distribution of depressive symptoms over time

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Publication date 2015
Journal BMC Psychiatry
Article number 222
Volume | Issue number 15
Number of pages 9
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  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Psychology Research Institute (PsyRes)
Abstract A defining characteristic of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is its episodic course, which might indicate that MDD is a nonlinear dynamic phenomenon with two discrete states. We investigated this hypothesis using the symptom time series of individual patients.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-015-0596-5
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