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. 2017 Jan 26;16(1):5–13. doi: 10.1002/wps.20375

Figure 4.

Figure 4

A weakly connected network (top panel) is resilient. Symptoms may be activated by events in the external field, but the symptom‐symptom interactions are not strong enough to lead to self‐sustaining symptom activity. A strongly connected network (bottom panel), instead, can sustain its own activity and thus develop into a disorder state.