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The DSM-5: Classification and criteria changes.

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This paper describes select revisions in the DSM‐5, with an emphasis on changes projected to have the greatest clinical impact and those that demonstrate efforts to enhance international compatibility, including integration of cultural context with diagnostic criteria and changes that facilitate DSM‐ICD harmonization.
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This article is published in World Psychiatry.The article was published on 2013-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 548 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: DSM-5.

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Transdiagnostic approaches to mental health problems: Current status and future directions.

TL;DR: This Introduction to a Special Section on Transdiagnostic Approaches to Psychopathology provides a narrative review of the transdiagnostic literature and outlines several challenges it currently faces that arguably limit its applicability in current mental health science and practice.
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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in the DSM-5: Controversy, Change, and Conceptual Considerations

TL;DR: The nosology of the current diagnosis of PTSD is explored by reviewing the changes made to the diagnostic criteria for PTSD in the DSM-5 and discussing how these changes influence the conceptualization of PTSD.
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A weak scientific basis for gaming disorder: Let us err on the side of caution

TL;DR: There could be benefits to formalizing gaming disorder, but they do not yet outweigh the wider societal and public health risks involved and the colleagues at the WHO are urged to err on the side of caution for now and postpone the formalization.
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European Practical and Patient-Centred Guidelines for Adult Obesity Management in Primary Care

TL;DR: Obesity management guidelines specifically tailored to GPs are provided, favouring a practical patient-centred approach, with a focus on GP communication and motivational interviewing as well as on therapeutic patient education.
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The role of epigenetic change in autism spectrum disorders

TL;DR: Though in their infancy, epigenetics studies have the potential to increase the understanding of the etiology of ASD and may assist in the development of biomarkers for its prediction, diagnosis, prognosis, and eventually in its prevention and intervention.
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

TL;DR: An issue concerning the criteria for tic disorders is highlighted, and how this might affect classification of dyskinesias in psychotic spectrum disorders.
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Establishment of Diagnostic Validity in Psychiatric Illness: Its Application to Schizophrenia

TL;DR: It was shown by follow-up and family studies that poor prognosis cases can be validly separated clinically from good prediction cases, and the authors conclude that good prognosis "schizophrenia" is not mild schizophrenia, but a different illness.
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The structure of common mental disorders.

TL;DR: The results suggest that comorbidity results from common, underlying core psychopathological processes, and argue for focusing research on these core processes themselves, rather than on their varied manifestations as separate disorders.
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DSM-5 Field Trials in the United States and Canada, Part II: Test-Retest Reliability of Selected Categorical Diagnoses

TL;DR: Most diagnoses adequately tested had good to very good reliability with these representative clinical populations assessed with usual clinical interview methods.
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