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Identifying Transdiagnostic Mechanisms in Mental Health Using Computational Factor Modeling

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BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
卷 93, 期 8, 页码 690-703

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.09.034

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Most psychiatric disorders are not isolated and their symptoms are not unique to a single diagnostic category. Current treatments fail for a substantial number of individuals, partly due to an overreliance on diagnostic categories. This review describes ongoing efforts to characterize psychiatric symptom dimensions using large-scale studies and a dimensional, mechanistic approach. Computational factor modeling is highlighted as a method to identify and validate associations between cognition and symptom dimensions.
Most psychiatric disorders do not occur in isolation, and most psychiatric symptom dimensions are not uniquely expressed within a single diagnostic category. Current treatments fail to work for around 25% to 40% of individuals, perhaps due at least in part to an overreliance on diagnostic categories in treatment development and allocation. In this review, we describe ongoing efforts in the field to surmount these challenges and precisely characterize psychiatric symptom dimensions using large-scale studies of unselected samples via remote, online, and citizen science efforts that take a dimensional, mechanistic approach. We discuss the importance that efforts to identify meaningful psychiatric dimensions be coupled with careful computational modeling to formally specify, test, and potentially falsify candidate mechanisms that underlie transdiagnostic symptom dimensions. We refer to this approach, i.e., where symptom dimensions are identified and validated against computationally well-defined neurocognitive processes, as computational factor modeling. We describe in detail some recent applications of this method to understand transdiagnostic cognitive processes that include model-based planning, metacognition, appetitive processing, and uncertainty estimation. In this context, we highlight how computational factor modeling has been used to identify specific associations between cognition and symptom dimensions and reveal previously obscured relationships, how findings generalize to smaller inperson clinical and nonclinical samples, and how the method is being adapted and optimized beyond its original instantiation. Crucially, we discuss next steps for this area of research, highlighting the value of more direct investigations of treatment response that bridge the gap between basic research and the clinic.

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