The Detection of Malingering: A New Tool to Identify Made-Up Depression

The Detection of Malingering: A New Tool to Identify Made-Up Depression

Major depression is a high-prevalence mental disease with major socio-economic impact, for both the direct and the indirect costs. Major depression symptoms can be faked or exaggerated in order to obtain economic compensation from insurance companies. Critically, depression is potentially easily mal...

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Main Authors: Merylin Monaro, Andrea Toncini, Stefano Ferracuti, Gianmarco Tessari, Maria G. Vaccaro, Pasquale De Fazio, Giorgio Pigato, Tiziano Meneghel, Cristina Scarpazza, Giuseppe Sartori
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychiatry
Subjects:
depression
malingering
decetpion
machine learning
automatic
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00249/full

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