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The last Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM): replacing our symptom-based diagnoses with a brain circuit-based classification of mental illnesses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2013

Stephen M. Stahl
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Abstract

ISSUE:Current psychiatric diagnoses are defined “top-down” based upon clinical phenomenology, but may give way to defining mental illnesses “bottom-up” based upon genetic and molecular factors that regulate information processing in neuronal circuits, and that can be visualized with neuroimaging techniques.

Type
Brainstorms
Information
CNS Spectrums , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , April 2013 , pp. 65 - 68
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013

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