Clinical diagnosis and/or phenomenological description is the cornerstone of both clinical
care and research in psychiatry. Clinical management and guidelines are structured around …

Neuroimaging and recent genetics discoveries have raised many questions regarding the
current diagnostic criteria of psychiatric diseases and the current classifications used, which …

Heterogeneous diagnostic categories, comorbidity, and long-itudinal shifts in diagnosis
pose fundamental challenges in unraveling the biology of mental illness and developing …

RECENT ADVANCES in the development of the classification of mental disorders through
the adoption of a basically “atheoretical,” empiricallybased, descriptiveapproachhave …

During the past five decades, psychiatry has pursued two goals, one being specificity of
diagnosis and treatment, and the other a series of all-inclusive diagnostic manuals that …

Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), we expected that some of the limitations of the current
psychiatric diagnostic criteria and taxonomy would be mitigated by the integration of …

For a long time, and prior to the neuroscience revolution that enabled probing the human
brain and exploring the neurobiology of psychiatric disorders, the field of psychiatry was …

In Psychiatry, as in all of medicine, diagnosis is a key function and central to developing a
plan of treatment for patients. Psychiatry, however, faces special challenges. The …

It does not adequately inform psychiatric practitioners about the many clinical and biologic
features shared across the various diagnostic categories. It does not do justice to the …

A major challenge for those revising the DSM-IV and ICD-10 will be to assess the feasibility
of using pathophysiology, genetic vulnerability, and environmental exposure variables as …