Graph theory applied to the analysis of motor activity in patients with schizophrenia and depression

Erlend Eindride Fasmer, Ole Bernt Fasmer, Jan Øystein Berle, Ketil J Oedegaard and Erik R Hauge

PLOS ONE, 2018, vol. 13, issue 4, 1-19

Abstract: Depression and schizophrenia are defined only by their clinical features, and diagnostic separation between them can be difficult. Disturbances in motor activity pattern are central features of both types of disorders. We introduce a new method to analyze time series, called the similarity graph algorithm. Time series of motor activity, obtained from actigraph registrations over 12 days in depressed and schizophrenic patients, were mapped into a graph and we then applied techniques from graph theory to characterize these time series, primarily looking for changes in complexity. The most marked finding was that depressed patients were found to be significantly different from both controls and schizophrenic patients, with evidence of less regularity of the time series, when analyzing the recordings with one hour intervals. These findings support the contention that there are important differences in control systems regulating motor behavior in patients with depression and schizophrenia. The similarity graph algorithm we have described can easily be applied to the study of other types of time series.

Date: 2018
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