Correlates of depression in bipolar disorder

Abstract

We analyse time series from 100 patients with bipolar disorder for correlates of depression symptoms. As the sampling interval is non-uniform, we quantify the extent of missing and irregular data using new measures of compliance and continuity. We find that uniformity of response is negatively correlated with the standard deviation of sleep ratings (ρ = -0.26, p = 0.01). To investigate the correlation structure of the time series themselves, we apply the Edelson-Krolik method for correlation estimation. We examine the correlation between depression symptoms for a subset of patients and find that self-reported measures of sleep and appetite/weight show a lower average correlation than other symptoms. Using surrogate time series as a reference dataset, we find no evidence that depression is correlated between patients, though we note a possible loss of information from sparse sampling.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2320
Divisions: College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Systems analytics research institute (SARI)
Additional Information: © 2013 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: NIHR - Grants for Applied Research Programme (grant reference no. RP-PG-0108-10087). Electronic supplementary material: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2320 or via http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org
Uncontrolled Keywords: bipolar disorder,mood variability,psychiatry,public healthcare,time-series analysis,Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all),Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all),Environmental Science(all),Immunology and Microbiology(all),Medicine(all)
Publication ISSN: 1471-2954
Last Modified: 05 Jan 2024 08:08
Date Deposited: 28 May 2015 10:25
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2014-02
Published Online Date: 2013-12-18
Authors: Moore, Paul J.
Little, Max A. (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-1507-3822)
McSharry, Patrick E.
Goodwin, Guy M.
Geddes, John R.

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