Table of Contents

Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Basic Nomenclature Issues for DSM-V
Chapter 2. Neuroscience Research Agenda to Guide Development of a Pathophysiologically Based
Classification System
Chapter 3. Advances in Developmental Science and DSM-V
Chapter 4. Personality Disorders and Relational Disorders: A Research Agenda for Addressing Crucial Gaps in DSM
Chapter 5. Mental Disorders and Disability: Time to Reevaluate the Relationship?
Chapter 6. Beyond the Funhouse Mirrors: Research Agenda on Culture and Psychiatric Diagnosis
Appendix 6-1: Preliminary List of Suggested Areas and Topics of Research in Culture and Psychiatric Diagnosis
Index

Promotional Information

By engaging an international cadre of research investigators in each of the proposed future diagnostic specific conferences, we hope to stimulate a cooperative research effort that can be supported by multiple national research funding sources. Likewise, by paying greater attention to the potential contribution of diverse research disciplines to clinical disease and disorder entities, even those defined by more transient but testable research criteria, we hope to accelerate the development of a research base that will be maximally informative for future revisions of the DSM and ICD classification systems for mental disorders. From the Introduction

About the Author

Michael B. First, M.D., is a Research Psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, New York.

David J. Kupfer, M.D., is Thomas Detre Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Darrel Regier, M.D., M.P.H., is Executive Director of the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education and Director of the Division of Research at the American Psychiatric Association in Washington, D.C.

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"By engaging an international cadre of research investigators in each of the proposed future diagnostic specific conferences, we hope to stimulate a cooperative research effort that can be supported by multiple national research funding sources. Likewise, by paying greater attention to the potential contribution of diverse research disciplines to clinical disease and disorder entities, even those defined by more transient but testable research criteria, we hope to accelerate the development of a research base that will be maximally informative for future revisions of the DSM and ICD classification systems for mental disorders." - From the Introduction