When news broke that the autism spectrum categories of Asperger’s disorder and Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS) would get subsumed into the wider maw of a general ...

DSM-5, the new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, is due to be published soon. This is the book used to diagnose mental disorders, including autism. The new version makes some changes ...

The study focused on a sample of 933 participants evaluated during the DSM-IV field trial; 657 carried a clinical diagnosis of an ASD, and 276 were diagnosed with a non-autistic disorder. Sensitivity ...

New research has called into question the accuracy of new diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as outlined in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of ...

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5 th Edition (DSM-5) revised the diagnostic criteria for dissociative identity disorder (DID) to more accurately reflect the symptom profile ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “As you probably know, there were a lot of changes made in DSM-5. For most of the major disorders involving ...

Goldman School of Public Policy and Berkeley Law, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA There is a perennial expert debate about the criteria to be included or excluded for the DSM ...

Although criteria used to assess serious alcohol problems will be revised in the upcoming fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), these changes will not ...

The DSM-5 has long served as the cornerstone for diagnosing and managing mental health disorders, but its current frameworks fall short of addressing the increasing prevalence of threats involving ...