When I was in graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh, the chairman of the psychiatry department was serving as chair of the DSM-5 Task Force. It was an exciting place and time to be training ...

After significant debate, the fifth edition of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-5) was published in 2013. Even before it was published it was met with ...

Psychiatric classification and diagnostic frameworks provide the foundation for identifying, studying and treating mental health conditions. Traditionally anchored in categorical systems such as the ...

Dr. Oldham's contributions have fundamentally reshaped personality disorder classification, moving the field from rigid diagnostic categories toward a more nuanced dimensional system. As former ...

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A sweeping genomic analysis reveals how psychiatric disorders cluster into five biological families, exposing shared pathways and pinpointing where their genetic roots diverge. Study: Mapping the ...

Two landmark studies reveal the psychiatric disorders genetic link across eight to fourteen conditions through shared ...

An international panel of leading experts on women’s mental health is recommending that postpartum psychosis be recognized as a distinct category of mental illness and classified accordingly within ...