Development and evaluation of a multimodal marker of major depressive disorder

This study aimed to identify biomarkers of major depressive disorder (MDD), by relating neuroimage‐derived measures to binary (MDD/control), ordinal (severe MDD/mild MDD/control), or continuous (depression severity) outcomes. To address MDD heterogeneity, factors (severity of psychic depression, motivation, anxiety, psychosis, and sleep disturbance) were also used as outcomes. A multisite, multimodal imaging (diffusion MRI [dMRI] and structural...