Psychology Today

DSM-5: “A Living Document” Dead on Arrival?

The new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5), a compendium of psychiatric diagnoses, will be released this month. DSM-5 has been heralded by its authors and publishers (the ...
Psychology Today

DSM 5 and Diagnostic Inflation

My biggest concern regarding DSM 5 is that it will dramatically increase the rates of mental disorder and cheapen the currency of psychiatric diagnosis. The DSM 5 proposals do this two ways: 1) by ...
ALZFORUM

DSM-5: Debated? Yes. Important for AD Diagnosis? Maybe Not

In the DSM-5, what used to be called “Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic, and Other Cognitive Disorders” is now named “Neurocognitive Disorders.” The new classification was introduced to distinguish ...
Nature

DSM-5 and RDoC: progress in psychiatry research?

Have neuroscience and genetic findings contributed to DSM.5 (the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)? B. J. Casey and Francis S. Lee. DSM-5 is a revision from ...