Why the study?
Major depressive disorder negatively impacts physical recovery, and functional near-infrared spectroscopy may potentially supplement clinical interviews and mental state examinations to establish psychiatric diagnoses and monitor treatment progress.
Does fNIRS measurement during an emotional sound test accurately distinguish patients with major depressive disorder from healthy controls?
Comparison
Patients clinically diagnosed with MDD vs healthy controls
Authors
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Supports fNIRS-neural network MDD screening; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before clinical use.
Does fNIRS measurement during an emotional sound test accurately distinguish patients with major depressive disorder from healthy controls?
fNIRS measurement of the prefrontal cortex combined with neural network analysis provides high classification accuracy for distinguishing MDD patients from healthy controls.
Chao et al. (2021) studied this question.
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