Commentary: Stabilizing Constructs through Collaboration across Different Research Fields as a Way to Foster the Integrative Approach of the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Project.

Walter Glannon

doi:10.3389/fnhum.2016.00363

Abstract

Commentary: Stabilizing Constructs through Collaboration across Different Research Fields as a Way to Foster the Integrative Approach of the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Project.

Highlights

The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) project was initiated by the NIMH as a way of explaining and understanding the etiology and pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders at a brain-systems level (Insel et al, 2010; Casey et al, 2013, 2014)
By identifying dysfunctional neural circuits and networks, the RDoC aims to provide a framework promoting more accurate diagnosis and prognosis and specify targets that could predict responses to therapeutic interventions for these disorders. This is an improvement over the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), which focuses on symptoms rather than causes
Its success as a theoretical model for explaining neuropsychiatric disorders depends on collectively stabilizing valid constructs across different research fields in the mind-brain sciences

Summary

Introduction

A commentary on Stabilizing Constructs through Collaboration across Different Research Fields as a Way to Foster the Integrative Approach of the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Project Sullivan, J. The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) project was initiated by the NIMH as a way of explaining and understanding the etiology and pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders at a brain-systems level (Insel et al, 2010; Casey et al, 2013, 2014). By identifying dysfunctional neural circuits and networks, the RDoC aims to provide a framework promoting more accurate diagnosis and prognosis and specify targets that could predict responses to therapeutic interventions for these disorders.

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