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ReviewAnnual review of clinical psychology2016

Clashing Diagnostic Approaches: DSM-ICD Versus RDoC.

Scott O Lilienfeld, Michael T Treadway

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Review in Annual review of clinical psychology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 77 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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77citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
226.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

77 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 268 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Scott O LilienfeldDepartment of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322; email: slilien@emory.edu.
Michael T TreadwayDepartment of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322; email: slilien@emory.edu.
Emory University · US

Funding

Stress and MDD effects on mPFC Glutamate and GABA during reward processingR00MH102355 · NIMH · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI TREADWAY, MICHAEL TILGHMAN · 2015 to 2017
$733k
NIMH NIH HHS R00 MH102355
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since at least the middle of the past century, one overarching model of psychiatric classification has reigned supreme, namely, that of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (herein referred to as DSM-ICD). This DSM-ICD approach embraces an Aristotelian view of mental disorders as largely discrete entities that are characterized by distinctive signs, symptoms, and natural histories. Over the past several years, however, a competing vision, namely, the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative launched by the National Institute of Mental Health, has emerged in response to accumulating anomalies within the DSM-ICD system. In contrast to DSM-ICD, RDoC embraces a Galilean view of psychopathology as the product of dysfunctions in neural circuitry. RDoC appears to be a valuable endeavor that holds out the long-term promise of an alternative system of mental illness classification. We delineate three sets of pressing challenges--conceptual, methodological, and logistical/pragmatic--that must be addressed for RDoC to realize its scientific potential. We conclude with a call for further research, including investigation of a rapprochement between Aristotelian and Galilean approaches to psychiatric classification.

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental DisordersInternational Classification of DiseasesVocabulary, ControlledHumansMental DisordersNational Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)United Statesclassificationcomorbiditydiagnosisdimensionendophenotype

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PMID26845519
PMCPMC5154554
OpenAlexW1897268783

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