A Network-Based Approach to Investigate the Pattern of Syndrome in Depression

Figure 3

Depression network. An edge indicates the relation between two connected symptoms. All edges are weighted by wMIs of corresponding symptom pairs. A thick edge represents strong relation between two nodes. All edge weights (wMIs) are not less than 0.1. The color of a node indicates the syndrome that symptoms are highly related to. Only top 12 key symptoms of each syndrome are marked by colors. A multicolor node implies that the symptom plays a crucial role in classifying different syndromes. For example, PS27 is of vital importance to differentiate between BD, PH, QD, and QS syndrome.