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ReviewSchizophrenia bulletin2016

Engaging Research Domain Criteria (RDoC): Neurocircuitry in Search of Meaning.

Greg I Elmer, P Leon Brown, Paul D Shepard

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Review in Schizophrenia bulletin, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Do Individuals With Overweight and Obesity Have Reduced Affective and Cognitive Empathy? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025
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  2. Identifying behavioral and biological predictors of cannabis vapor self-administration in rats.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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  4. Application of Machine Learning to Sleep Stage Classification.Proceedings. International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Greg I ElmerMaryland Psychiatric Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD gelmer@mprc.umaryland.edu.
P Leon BrownMaryland Psychiatric Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Paul D ShepardMaryland Psychiatric Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.

Funding

Multidisciplinary Schizophrenia Research TrainingT32MH067533 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI CARPENTER, WILLIAM T., ELMER, GREGORY I · 2004 to 2025
$4.3M
Habenulomesencephalic pathway in aversion, reward and depressionR01MH094489 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI ELMER, GREGORY I, SHEPARD, PAUL D · 2012 to 2016
$2.1M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH094489NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH067533
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative was implemented to reorient the approach to mental health research from one focused on Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) nosology to one oriented to psychological constructs constrained by neurocircuitry and molecular entities. The initiative has generated significant discussion and valuable reflection on the moorings of psychiatric research. The purpose of this article is to illustrate how a basic or clinical investigator can engage RDoC to explore the neurobiological underpinnings of psychopathology and how a research question can be formulated in RDoC's framework. We utilize a brain region with significant growing interest, the habenula, as an example for probing RDoC's utility. Opportunities to enhance neurocircuitry-psychological construct associations and problems associated with neuronal populations that enable bidirectional circuitry influence are discussed. The exercise reveals areas for further development that could move RDoC from a promising research idea to a successfully engaged foundation for catalyzing clinically relevant discoveries.

Indexed as

Terminology as TopicBiomedical ResearchHabenulaHumansMental DisordersDSMendophenotypehabenulapsychiatric diagnosisRMTgtranslational

Identifiers

PMID27412648
PMCPMC4988756

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