IMPACT-MH: Clinical and behavioral fingerprints of psychopathology
Project Number1U01MH136497-01
Contact PI/Project LeaderPITTENGER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN Other PIs
Awardee OrganizationYALE UNIVERSITY
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SUMMARY
Psychiatric symptoms are a leading cause of suffering and disability worldwide. Decades of research have focused on
understanding their etiology and underpinnings, typically using a diagnosis-based approach in which individuals with a
given condition are compared to a matched ‘control’ group. Less work has focused on characterizing the longitudinal
course of symptoms at the individual level in relation to underlying cognitive, affective, and behavioral mechanisms.
Recognizing that most (if not all) psychiatric disorders are defined by their longitudinal course, this application moves
beyond the limitations of traditional diagnosis-centered and ‘case-control’ designs to collect longitudinal data over two
years from a large sample (N=2400), highly enriched for psychopathology across a wide range of traditional diagnoses,
to identify predictive markers of symptom change using assessments that can be easily implemented in real-world
settings. Specifically, we will collect: (i) data embedded in electronic health records (EHR), including social determinants
of health; (ii) traditional clinical measures typically used in diagnosis-based approaches (e.g., clinical interviews, well-
validated clinical scales); (iii) recently developed computational behavioral tasks with demonstrated sensitivity to latent
constructs and to within-person change; (iv) short gamified behavioral measures of mood and reward-relevant
constructs, measured repeatedly; (v) spoken narrative responses to uniform prompts for natural language processing
(NLP) analyses; and (vi) patient-derived and NIH Toolbox continuous measures of key transdiagnostic outcomes. These
data will be analyzed using advanced statistical and machine learning approaches (e.g., latent growth curve modeling,
neural network transformer modeling), consistent with the recommendations set forth in the IMPACT-MH RFA.
In AIM 1, we will use this rich dataset to test the predictive value of ‘traditional’ (EHR, other clinical) vs computational
and NLP data in predicting outcomes. We will further test the differential predictive value of combinations of measures,
including sparse and dense behavioral sampling, seeking to identify a minimum set of measures with maximum added
clinical value. In AIM 2, we will examine longitudinal clinical trajectories using data-driven trajectory analysis of
multidimensional clinical and computational fingerprints; this approach may ultimately be used to generate normative
models to track and forecast clinical course in patients. Finally, in AIM 3, we will seek to identify subgroups, based on
computational fingerprint similarities at baseline, that predict differences in outcomes at 2-year follow-up, and to test
whether optimal predictive models differ among such subgroups.
This rich dataset will have enormous value beyond these three Aims. We are recruiting from established diagnosis- and
population-specific research programs; combination of the longitudinal data collected here with additional data
collected by these programs, including neuroimaging and genetics, will create rich opportunities for secondary and
exploratory analyses in subgroups. Finally, these data will be made available to the community, in deidentified form in
collaboration with the IMPACT-MH Data Coordinating Center, for exploratory and confirmatory analysis by others.
Public Health Relevance Statement
NARRATIVE
Despite significant advances in research and clinical care for mental illness, prediction of clinical course at the individual
level remains elusive, in part due to a dearth of longitudinal data collected using assessments sensitive to individual
change over time. Using a combination of ‘traditional’ clinical information (e.g., health records, standardized
assessments) and more novel computational data (e.g., behavioral tasks with demonstrated sensitivity to latent
constructs and to within-person change), this IMPACT-MH project will collect longitudinal data from a cohort of 2400
individuals, highly enriched for psychopathology across multiple diagnostic categories. These data will be used to
conduct person-centered analyses focused on (i) individual-level prediction of outcomes; (ii) characterization of diverse
clinical trajectories; and (iii) data-driven analyses to identify subgroups (aka, ‘biotypes’) that predict differences in
outcomes at 2 years.
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Project Terms
AddressAffectiveBehaviorBehavioralBehavioral MechanismsCOVID-19COVID-19 impactCategoriesCellular PhoneChildClinicalClinical ResearchClinical assessmentsCognitionCognitiveCollaborationsCommunitiesComplexControl GroupsDataData Coordinating CenterData ScientistData SetDevelopmentDiagnosisDiagnosticDimensionsDiseaseDissociationEcosystemElectronic Health RecordEtiologyEvolutionFamilyFingerprintGeneticGoalsGrowthHouseholdIndividualInterviewMachine LearningMeasuresMemoryMental DepressionMental disordersMethodsModelingMoodsNatural Language ProcessingOutcomePatient Self-ReportPatientsPatternPersonsPhenotypePopulationPost-Traumatic Stress DisordersPredictive AnalyticsPredictive ValuePredictive Value of TestsPsychiatric DiagnosisPsychiatryPsychopathologyRecommendationResearchRewardsSamplingSchizophreniaStandardizationSubgroupSymptomsTabletsTestingTextTimeUnited States National Institutes of HealthVariantWorkbehavior measurementbehavioral outcomebiotypesburden of illnesscase controlclinical careclinical predictorscohortcomparison groupcomputerized data processingdesigndisabilityfollow-uphealth recordimprovedindividual patientindividualized medicinelarge datasetslongitudinal analysislongitudinal courseneural networkneuroimagingnoveloutcome predictionpatient subsetsperson centeredpre-trained transformerpredict clinical outcomepredictive markerpredictive modelingprognostic valueprogramspsychiatric symptomrecruitresponsesocial health determinantsstatistical and machine learning
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