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Editorial
. 2017 Dec 8;8(sup3):1398003.
doi: 10.1080/20008198.2017.1398003. eCollection 2017.

PTSD symptomics: network analyses in the field of psychotraumatology

Cherie Armour  1 , Eiko I Fried  2 , Miranda Olff  3   4
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Editorial

PTSD symptomics: network analyses in the field of psychotraumatology

Cherie Armour et al. Eur J Psychotraumatol. .

Abstract
in English, Spanish, Chinese

Recent years have seen increasing attention on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) research. While research has largely focused on the dichotomy between patients diagnosed with mental disorders and healthy controls - in other words, investigations at the level of diagnoses - recent work has focused on psychopathology symptoms. Symptomics research in the area of PTSD has been scarce so far, although several studies have focused on investigating the network structures of PTSD symptoms. The present special issue of EJPT adds to the literature by curating additional PTSD network studies, each looking at a different aspect of PTSD. We hope that this special issue encourages researchers to conceptualize and model PTSD data from a network perspective, which arguably has the potential to inform and improve the efficacy of therapeutic interventions.

Los últimos años han visto una atención creciente en la investigación sobre el trastorno por estrés postraumático (TEPT). Si bien la investigación se ha centrado principalmente en la dicotomía entre pacientes diagnosticados con trastornos mentales y controles sanos –en otras palabras, investigaciones a nivel de diagnóstico–, el trabajo reciente se ha centrado en los síntomas psicopatológicos. La investigación sintomática en el área del TEPT ha sido escasa hasta el momento, aunque varios estudios se han centrado en investigar las estructuras de la red de los síntomas del TEPT. Este número especial de la EJPT se agrega a la literatura con estudios adicionales de la red de TEPT, cada uno analizando un aspecto diferente del TEPT Esperamos que este número especial anime a los investigadores a conceptualizar y modelar los datos del TEPT desde una perspectiva de red, lo que sin duda tiene el potencial de informar y mejorar la eficacia de las intervenciones terapéuticas.

近年来对创伤后应激障碍研究的关注有所提高。大量研究关注诊断病人和健康控制组的区分上——换句话说，研究在诊断层面——近期工作集中在心理病理症状上。在PTSD领域的症候研究目前还很缺乏，尽管一些研究已经开始关注PTSD症状的网络结构。这本EJPT的特刊收录额外的PTSD网络研究，各自关注PTSD的不同方面。我们希望这次特刊可以鼓励研究者从网络视角看待和建立PTSD数据模型，虽然还存在争议，但这有可能为提供治疗干预效果提供信息。.

Keywords: PTSD; network analysis; psychopathology; symptomics; symptoms.

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