Improving Motor Activity Assessment in Depression: Which Sensor Placement, Analytic Strategy and Diurnal Time Frame Are Most Powerful in Distinguishing Patients from Controls and Monitoring Treatment Effects

Markus Reichert; Alexander Lutz; Michael Deuschle; Maria Gilles; Holger Hill; Matthias F. Limberger; Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0124231

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Improving Motor Activity Assessment in Depression: Which Sensor Placement, Analytic Strategy and Diurnal Time Frame Are Most Powerful in Distinguishing Patients from Controls and Monitoring Treatment Effects

Markus Reichert ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Markus Reichert, Alexander Lutz

Affiliations Department of Sports and Sports Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
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Alexander Lutz ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Markus Reichert, Alexander Lutz

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, University of Heidelberg, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Mannheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
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Michael Deuschle,

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, University of Heidelberg, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Mannheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
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Maria Gilles,

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, University of Heidelberg, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Mannheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
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Holger Hill,

Affiliation Department of Sports and Sports Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
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Matthias F. Limberger,

Affiliations Department of Sports and Sports Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
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Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer

* E-mail: ulrich.ebner-priemer@kit.edu

Affiliations Department of Sports and Sports Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
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Improving Motor Activity Assessment in Depression: Which Sensor Placement, Analytic Strategy and Diurnal Time Frame Are Most Powerful in Distinguishing Patients from Controls and Monitoring Treatment Effects

Markus Reichert,
Alexander Lutz,
Michael Deuschle,
Maria Gilles,
Holger Hill,
Matthias F. Limberger,
Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer

Published: April 17, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0124231

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