title: An agenda for symptom-based research.
abstract: The network approach proposed by Cramer et al. suggests fascinating new directions of research on mental disorders. Research is needed to find evidence for the causal power of symptoms, to examine symptoms thoroughly, to investigate individual differences in edge strength, to discover etiological processes for each symptom, and to determine whether and why symptoms cohere into distinct mental disorders.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA. fleesonw@wfu.edu
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Fleeson
authors.forename: R Michael
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Furr
authors.forename: Elizabeth Mayfield
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Arnold
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012106:Research