The next generation of translational measures must exhibit greater construct validity in their capacity to capture the dynamic nature of mental illness.
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Treadway, M.T. Computational psychiatry and the lived experience of mental illness. Nat Rev Psychol 2, 67–68 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-022-00142-z
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