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ArticleBMC medicine2022

Revisiting the seven pillars of RDoC.

Sarah E Morris, Charles A Sanislow, Jenni Pacheco, Uma Vaidyanathan, Joshua A Gordon, Bruce N Cuthbert

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Article in BMC medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07544199 (Transdiagnostic Dimensional Profiling of Neurodevelopmental Disorders), which is not on this map. Cited by 83 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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NCT07544199 not yet recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2026, after this paper: background citation

Transdiagnostic Dimensional Profiling of Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Using a Digital Platform to Assess Domain-General and Domain Specific Cognitive Functions

Typeobservational_patient_registrySponsorIRCCS Eugenio MedeaRan2026 to 2030Enrolled300ConditionsNeurodevelopmental Disorder (Diagnosis)ArmsNeuropsychological assessment
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83 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  17. Associations Between Steep Delay Discounting and Punishment Learning.Computational psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Sarah E MorrisNational Institute of Mental Health, Neuroscience Center, 6001 Executive Blvd, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA. sarah.morris@nih.gov.
Charles A SanislowWesleyan University, Middletown, USA.
Jenni PachecoNational Institute of Mental Health, Neuroscience Center, 6001 Executive Blvd, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.
Uma VaidyanathanNational Institute of Mental Health, Neuroscience Center, 6001 Executive Blvd, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.
Joshua A GordonNational Institute of Mental Health, Neuroscience Center, 6001 Executive Blvd, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.
Bruce N CuthbertNational Institute of Mental Health, Neuroscience Center, 6001 Executive Blvd, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundIn 2013, a few years after the launch of the National Institute of Mental Health's Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative, Cuthbert and Insel published a paper titled "Toward the future of psychiatric diagnosis: the seven pillars of RDoC." The RDoC project is a translational research effort to encourage new ways of studying psychopathology through a focus on disruptions in normal functions (such as reward learning or attention) that are defined jointly by observable behavior and neurobiological measures. The paper outlined the principles of the RDoC research framework, including emphases on research that acquires data from multiple measurement classes to foster integrative analyses, adopts dimensional approaches, and employs novel methods for ascertaining participants and identifying valid subgroups. DISCUSSION: To mark the first decade of the RDoC initiative, we revisit the seven pillars and highlight new research findings and updates to the framework that are related to each. This reappraisal emphasizes the flexible nature of the RDoC framework and its application in diverse areas of research, new findings related to the importance of developmental trajectories within and across neurobehavioral domains, and the value of computational approaches for clarifying complex multivariate relations among behavioral and neurobiological systems.

conclusionThe seven pillars of RDoC have provided a foundation that has helped to guide a surge of new studies that have examined neurobehavioral domains related to mental disorders, in the service of informing future psychiatric nosology. Building on this footing, future areas of emphasis for the RDoC project will include studying central-peripheral interactions, developing novel approaches to phenotyping for genomic studies, and identifying new targets for clinical trial research to facilitate progress in precision psychiatry.

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Mental DisordersPsychiatryGenomicsHumansPsychopathologyTranslational Research, BiomedicalDiagnosisNIMHPsychiatryRDoCResearch Domain Criteria

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PMID35768815
PMCPMC9245309

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