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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV)

George Mendelson
- 06 Jul 2009 - 
- Vol. 29, Iss: 3, pp 529-535
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This article is published in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry.The article was published on 2009-07-06. It has received 3512 citations till now.

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The autism-spectrum quotient (AQ): evidence from Asperger syndrome/high-functioning autism, males and females, scientists and mathematicians.

TL;DR: The Autism-Spectrum Quotient is a valuable instrument for rapidly quantifying where any given individual is situated on the continuum from autism to normality, and its potential for screening for autism spectrum conditions in adults of normal intelligence remains to be fully explored.
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The ''Reading the Mind in the Eyes'' Test Revised Version: A Study with Normal Adults, and Adults with Asperger Syndrome or High-functioning Autism

TL;DR: The Revised Eyes Test has improved power to detect subtle individual differences in social sensitivity and was inversely correlated with the Autism Spectrum Quotient (the AQ), a measure of autistic traits in adults of normal intelligence.
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Actions of Caffeine in the Brain with Special Reference to Factors That Contribute to Its Widespread Use

TL;DR: Caffeine is the most widely consumed behaviorally active substance in the world and almost all caffeine comes from dietary sources (beverages and food).

The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: Building a Foundation for Better Understanding

Robert Graham
TL;DR: The National Institutes of Health asked the Institute of Medicine to assess current knowledge of the health status of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender populations; to identify research gaps and opportunities; and to outline a research agenda to help NIH focus its research in this area.
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Diagnostic criteria for use in psychiatric research.

TL;DR: Diagnostic criteria for 14 psychiatric illnesses along with the validating evidence for these diagnostic categories comes from workers outside the authors' group as well as from those within; it consists of studies of both outpatients and inpatients, of family studies, and of follow-up studies.
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DSM-III and the transformation of American psychiatry: a history

TL;DR: While DSM-III, and the return to descriptive psychiatry which it inaugurated, has had positive consequences for the profession, at the same time it represents a significant narrowing of psychiatry's clinical gaze.
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The diagnostic status of homosexuality in DSM-III: a reformulation of the issues

TL;DR: The DSM-III controversy as mentioned in this paper was the first attempt to remove preferential homosexuality from the DSM-II classification of mental disorders and replace it with the category Sexual Orientation Disturbance.
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