Electronic/World Wide Web>Internet Article: NIMH, (June, 2011), NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoC), NIMH, Retrieved on 2013-05-07Source Material [www.nimh.nih.gov]
Folksonomies: psychology diagnosis mental disorders Memes
11 MAY 2013
The RDOC Matrix
The RDoC research framework can be considered as a matrix whose rows correspond to specified dimensions of function; these are explicitly termed “Constructs,” i.e., a concept summarizing data about a specified functional dimension of behavior (and implementing genes and circuits) that is subject to continual refinement with advances in science. Constructs represent the fundamental unit of analysis in this system, and it is anticipated that most studies would focus on one construct (or per... 1 
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notesThe new criteria and paradigm for evaluating mental illness and directing research.
11 MAY 2013
The Problem with the DSM
Currently, diagnosis in mental disorders is based on clinical observation and patients’ phenomenological symptom reports. This system, implemented with the innovative Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-III (DSM-III) in 1980 and refined in the current DSM-IV-TR (Text Revision), has served well to improve diagnostic reliability in both clinical practice and research. The diagnostic categories represented in the DSM-IV and the International Classification of Diseases-10 (ICD-10, containing virt...
1 By clustering symptoms into categories of mental illness, we are treating symptoms, not underlying causes.
