Psychiatric symptomics: a new perspective on mental disorders
Psychiatric symptomics: a new perspective on mental disorders
Eiko Fried studied Psychology at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, with a focus on clinical and evolutionary psychology. From 2010-2014, he worked on his PhD titled "Covert Heterogeneity of Major Depressive Disorder: Depression Is More Than the Sum-Score of its Symptoms" at the Cluster Languages of Emotions at Freie Universität Berlin. During this time, he spent two semesters as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, closely collaborating with Randolph Nesse and Srijan Sen from the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry. In 2014, he moved to Belgium and works in the research group of Quantitative Psychology at the University of Leuven as a postdoctoral research fellow. His main commitment is studying differences and causal associations among individual symptoms of mental health problems, with an interest in affective disorders, longitudinal multivariate statistical approaches, and network modeling.