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Behavioral activation therapy for depression is associated with a reduction in the concentration of circulating quinolinic acid — Erratum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 July 2021

Jonathan Savitz
Affiliation:
Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA Oxley College of Health Sciences, The University of Tulsa,Tulsa, OK, USA
Bart N. Ford
Affiliation:
Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA
Hung-Wen Yeh
Affiliation:
Childrens’ Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO, USA
Elisabeth Akeman
Affiliation:
Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA
Kelly Cosgrove
Affiliation:
Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA Department of Psychology, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, USA
Ashley N. Clausen
Affiliation:
Kansas City VA Healthcare System, Kansas City, MO, USA Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, MO, USA
Christopher Martell
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MO, USA
Namik Kirlic
Affiliation:
Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA
Jessica Santiago
Affiliation:
Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA
T. Kent Teague
Affiliation:
Department of Surgery, University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine, Tulsa, OK, USA Department of Psychiatry, University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine, Tulsa, OK, USA Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy, Tulsa, OK, USA
Michael R. Irwin
Affiliation:
Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology at UCLA, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Martin P. Paulus
Affiliation:
Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA Oxley College of Health Sciences, The University of Tulsa,Tulsa, OK, USA
Robin L. Aupperle
Affiliation:
Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA Oxley College of Health Sciences, The University of Tulsa,Tulsa, OK, USA
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Abstract

Type
Erratum
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

The authors of the Psychological Medicine article “Behavioral activation therapy for depression is associated with a reduction in the concentration of circulating quinolinic acid” (Savitz et al., 2020) have identified an error in one of the analyses and associated results reported. The error specifically related to Hypothesis 3, that the magnitude of change in blood biomarkers from pre- to post-therapy would be associated with improvements in depressive symptoms. The original manuscript reports that the increase in the kynurenic acid (KynA) to quinolinic acid (QuinA) was associated with the decrease in PROMIS-Depression scores (F11,218 = 1.7, p = 0.074, Cohen's f2 = 0.054), and that the decrease in IL-1RA was marginally associated with the decrease in PROMIS-Depression scores (F11,218 = 1.8, uncorrected p = 0.057, Cohen's f2 = 0.082) but did not survive FDR correction. An error was found in the code that calculated the percent change in the biomarkers from pre- to post-therapy (using the post-treatment values as the denominator rather than the pre-treatment values). Correcting this calculation results in minor changes to the values for percent change and once corrected, the association between the change in KynA/QuinA and PROMIS-Depression scores was no longer significant (F11,218 = 0.9, p = 0.504, Cohen's f2 = 0.034), and the association between the change in IL-1RA and PROMIS-Depression scores was strengthened (F11,218 = 2.6, uncorrected p = 0.004, Cohen's f2 = 0.084) but still did not survive FDR correction (Benjamini-Hochberg adjusted p = 0.141). This correction does not affect any of the other results reported in this study, nor does it alter our overall interpretation of the results.

References

Savitz, J., Ford, B., Yeh, H., Akeman, E., Cosgrove, K., Clausen, A., . . . Aupperle, R. (2020). Behavioral activation therapy for depression is associated with a reduction in the concentration of circulating quinolinic acid. Psychological Medicine, 110. doi:10.1017/S0033291720004389CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed