Figure 1

Distribution of the human subjects (normal and depressive) over the self-organising map (SOM) (a), and SOM areas (b). (a) The distribution of the 144 subjects studied, 60 apparently healthy (green) and 84 diagnosed as depressed (red) effected by the SOM allowed us to identify 4 areas: 2 specific ones (exclusively normal and exclusively pathological) and 2 mixed with different concentrations of pathological subjects and apparently normal subjects of the sample. The red subjects in the two intermediate areas (yellow and orange) have been interpreted as having a misleading diagnosis of major depression, as described in the literature [14]. (b) SOM areas. Green = normal, red = depressive, yellow = high density of normal subjects, orange = high density of pathological subjects.