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WARN-D

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Using Network Theory to Predict Depression Onset and Build a Personalized Early...
Using Network Theory to Predict Depression Onset and Build a Personalized Early Warning System Depression is common, debilitating, and often chronic. It severely compromises the capacity for independent living, and is the strongest predictor of suicide. Young people are disproportionately affected, and many will spend over... Depression is common, debilitating, and often chronic. It severely compromises the capacity for independent living, and is the strongest predictor of suicide. Young people are disproportionately affected, and many will spend over 20% of their lives in a state of depression. Further, only 50% of patients improve under initial treatment. Experts agree that prevention is the most effective way to change depression’s global disease burden. The biggest barrier to successful personalized prevention is to identify those at risk for depression in the near future. My proposal aims to solve the challenge who should receive prevention, and when, by developing the personalized early warning system WARN-D. To implement personalized detection, I will follow 2,000 individuals over 2 years, and integrate emerging theoretical, measurement, and modelling approaches from different scientific fields so far unconnected. Regarding theory, I conceptualize depression as a complex dynamical system in which causal relations and vicious cycles between problems can move the system from a healthy to a clinical state, consistent with the Network Approach to Psychopathology that I co-developed. Regarding measurement, I will follow participants in their daily lives, and collect temporal dynamics of bio-psycho-social variables like mood, anxiety, stress, impairment, sleep, and activity via smart-phone based ecological momentary assessment (EMA) and smart-watch based digital phenotype data. I will use dynamical network models to study the relations among problems, and use parameters of these models, combined with baseline, EMA, and digital phenotype data, to construct the prediction model WARN-D via state-of-the-art machine learning models. The interdisciplinary project combines numerous modern tools to develop a tailored personalized early warning system that forecasts depression reliably before it occurs, promising to radically transform the science of depression detection. ver más
31/03/2026
2M€
Duración del proyecto: 60 meses Fecha Inicio: 2021-03-01
Fecha Fin: 2026-03-31

Línea de financiación: concedida

El organismo H2020 notifico la concesión del proyecto el día 2021-03-01
Línea de financiación objetivo El proyecto se financió a través de la siguiente ayuda:
ERC-2020-STG: ERC STARTING GRANTS
Cerrada hace 5 años
Presupuesto El presupuesto total del proyecto asciende a 2M€
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