ArticlePsychophysiology2016
The NIMH Research Domain Criteria Initiative: Background, Issues, and Pragmatics.
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303 citing papers in PubMed, 13 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Digital phenotyping for mental health conditions: a systematic review of implementation and application.Frontiers in digital health · 2026Pooled it
- Mentalizing impairments across 11 psychiatric conditions: A transdiagnostic systematic review and network meta-analysis of tasks with static illustrations.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2025Pooled it
- Common and distinct patterns of brain activity alterations during inhibitory control in depression and psychostimulant users: a comparative meta-analysis of task-based fMRI studies.Psychological medicine · 2025Pooled it
- The hierarchical taxonomy of psychopathology and the search for neurobiological substrates of mental illness: A systematic review and roadmap for future research.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2024Pooled it
- Momentary physiological indices related to eating disorders: A systematic and methodological review.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2024Pooled it
- The effects of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) on the Positive Valence Systems: A Research Domain Criteria (RDoC)-Informed Systematic Review.CNS drugs · 2023Pooled it
- A Research Domain Criteria (RDoC)-Guided Dashboard to Review Psilocybin Target Domains: A Systematic Review.CNS drugs · 2022Pooled it
- Pathological fear, anxiety and negative affect exhibit distinct neurostructural signatures: evidence from psychiatric neuroimaging meta-analysis.Translational psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Prenatal maternal posttraumatic stress disorder as a risk factor for adverse birth weight and gestational age outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of affective disorders · 2021Pooled it
- The Etiologic, Theory-Based, Ontogenetic Hierarchical Framework of Alcohol Use Disorder: A Translational Systematic Review of Reviews.Psychological bulletin · 2021Pooled it
- Depression and Cognitive Control across the Lifespan: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Neuropsychology review · 2020Pooled it
- Identification of Common Neural Circuit Disruptions in Emotional Processing Across Psychiatric Disorders.The American journal of psychiatry · 2020Pooled it
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- Neural mechanisms underlying exposure and response prevention for obsessive compulsive disorder: A randomized controlled trial.Behaviour research and therapy · 2025Trial
- Attention guidance augmentation of virtual reality exposure therapy for social anxiety disorder: a pilot randomized controlled trial.Cognitive behaviour therapy · 2022Trial
- Emotional Responses (Intensity/Valence) Fulfill RDoC Criteria but Remain Excluded From Diagnostic Classifications of Mood Disorders.Bipolar disorders · 2026Review
- Unveiling the enigma of anxiety disorders and depression: from pathogenesis to treatment.Science China. Life sciences · 2026Review
- Beyond the Diagnostic Binary: A Translational Use of the Research Domain Criteria to Improve the Measurement of Anxiety in the Context of Cannabis Use.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Towards a Multidimensional Model of Neurocognitive Disorders (MOND Model): Integrating Evidence from a Critical Review into a Model for Future Research.Journal of personalized medicine · 2026Review
- The functional neurobiology of dispositions towards negative emotions.Nature communications · 2026Article
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Abstract
This article describes the National Institute of Mental Health's Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative. The description includes background, rationale, goals, and the way the initiative has been developed and organized. The central RDoC concepts are summarized and the current matrix of constructs that have been vetted by workshops of extramural scientists is depicted. A number of theoretical and methodological issues that can arise in connection with the nature of RDoC constructs are highlighted: subjectivism and heterophenomenology, desynchrony and theoretical neutrality among units of analysis, theoretical reductionism, endophenotypes, biomarkers, neural circuits, construct "grain size," and analytic challenges. The importance of linking RDoC constructs to psychiatric clinical problems is discussed. Some pragmatics of incorporating RDoC concepts into applications for NIMH research funding are considered, including sampling design.
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