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Overview

Eiko I. Fried is affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands. Their research contributions span psychology and neuroscience, with a focus on experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, biological psychiatry, and psychiatry and mental health. Their work addresses a variety of topics related to mental health research, including functional brain connectivity studies, tryptophan and brain disorders, schizophrenia research and treatment, complex network analysis techniques, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, and child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Fried has published extensively, with recent papers including:

  • Network analysis of multivariate data in psychological science, 2021, Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • Measurement Schmeasurement: Questionable Measurement Practices and How to Avoid Them, 2020, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • Reporting standards for psychological network analyses in cross-sectional data, 2022, Psychological Methods
  • Lack of Theory Building and Testing Impedes Progress in The Factor and Network Literature, 2020, Psychological Inquiry
  • Revisiting the theoretical and methodological foundations of depression measurement, 2022, Nature Reviews Psychology

The most frequent co-authors collaborating with Fried are:

  • Sacha Epskamp
  • Donald J. Robinaugh
  • Denny Borsboom
  • Adela-Maria Isvoranu
  • Lourens Waldorp

Frequent publication venues for Fried include:

  • Psychological Medicine
  • Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science
  • The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Arabixiv (OSF Preprints)
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy

The body of Fried's work is characterized by contributions to mental health research topics and methodological advances in psychological science, particularly through network analysis approaches applied to psychological data.

Best Publications

  • Estimating Psychological Networks and their Accuracy : A tutorial paper

    Sacha Epskamp;Denny Borsboom;Eiko I. Fried

  • A tutorial on regularized partial correlation networks.

    Sacha Epskamp;Eiko I. Fried

  • Depression is not a consistent syndrome: An investigation of unique symptom patterns in the STAR*D study

    Eiko I. Fried;Randolph M. Nesse

  • Mental disorders as networks of problems: a review of recent insights

    Eiko I Fried;Claudia D van Borkulo;Angélique O J Cramer;Lynn Boschloo

  • Network analysis of multivariate data in psychological science

    Denny Borsboom;Marie K. Deserno;Mijke Rhemtulla;Sacha Epskamp

  • Depression sum-scores don’t add up: why analyzing specific depression symptoms is essential

    Eiko I Fried;Randolph M Nesse

  • Moving Forward: Challenges and Directions for Psychopathological Network Theory and Methodology:

    Eiko I Fried;Angélique O J Cramer

  • Network analysis of depression and anxiety symptom relationships in a psychiatric sample.

    Courtney Beard;Alex J. Millner;Marie J. C. Forgeard;Eiko I. Fried

  • Measurement Schmeasurement: Questionable Measurement Practices and How to Avoid Them:

    Jessica Kay Flake;Eiko I. Fried

  • What are 'good' depression symptoms? Comparing the centrality of DSM and non-DSM symptoms of depression in a network analysis

    Eiko I. Fried;Sacha Epskamp;Randolph M. Nesse;Francis Tuerlinckx

  • The 52 symptoms of major depression: Lack of content overlap among seven common depression scales.

    Eiko I. Fried

  • A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology Can Transform Mental Health Research

    Christopher C. Conway;Miriam K. Forbes;Kelsie T. Forbush;Eiko I. Fried

  • The impact of individual depressive symptoms on impairment of psychosocial functioning.

    Eiko I. Fried;Randolph M. Nesse

  • Problematic assumptions have slowed down depression research: why symptoms, not syndromes are the way forward

    Eiko I. Fried

  • Replicability and Generalizability of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Networks: A Cross-Cultural Multisite Study of PTSD Symptoms in Four Trauma Patient Samples

    Eiko I Fried;Marloes B Eidhof;Sabina Palic;Giulio Costantini

  • How predictable are symptoms in psychopathological networks? A reanalysis of 18 published datasets

    Jonas Haslbeck;Eiko I. Fried

  • From loss to loneliness: The relationship between bereavement and depressive symptoms.

    Eiko I. Fried;Claudi Bockting;Retha Arjadi;Denny Borsboom

  • A network analysis of DSM-5 posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and correlates in U.S. military veterans

    Cherie Armour;Eiko I. Fried;Marie K. Deserno;Jack Tsai

  • Social media and depression symptoms: A network perspective.

    George Aalbers;Richard J. McNally;Alexandre Heeren;Sanne de Wit

  • Depression is more than the sum score of its parts: individual DSM symptoms have different risk factors

    Eiko I. Fried;Randolph M. Nesse;Kara Zivin;Constance Guille

Frequent Co-Authors

Denny Borsboom
Denny Borsboom University of Amsterdam
Donald J. Robinaugh
Donald J. Robinaugh Massachusetts General Hospital
Randolph M. Nesse
Randolph M. Nesse Arizona State University
Jan Stochl
Jan Stochl University of Cambridge
Robert A. Schoevers
Robert A. Schoevers University Medical Center Groningen
Rogier A. Kievit
Rogier A. Kievit Donders Institute
Angélique O. J. Cramer
Angélique O. J. Cramer University of Amsterdam
Ian M. Goodyer
Ian M. Goodyer University of Cambridge
Giovanni Abrahão Salum
Giovanni Abrahão Salum Child Mind Institute
Lorne Campbell
Lorne Campbell University of Western Ontario

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