Sunday, September 15, 2013

Mental Health'sRDoC

A coming revolution walks a fine line

by vaughanbell
The Chronicle of Higher Education has an excellent in-deptharticle on the most likely candidate for a revolution in mental health research: the National Institute of Mental Health'sRDoC or Research Domain Criteria project.
The article is probably the best description of the project this side of the scientific literature and considering that the RDoC is likely to fundamentally change how mental illness is understood, and eventually, treated, it is essential reading.
It is also interesting for the fact that the leaders of the RDoC project continue to hammer the reputation of the long-standing psychiatric diagnosis manual - the DSM./.../

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