Book Review: DSM-5: The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5

What clinicians need to know about DSM-5.

Two views on the new DSM-5: DSM-5: a diagnostic guide relevant to both primary care and psychiatric practice.

Despite endorsement of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th ed. (DSM-5) by the director of the National Institute of Mental Health and the president of the American Psychiatric Association,1 the largest psychiatric association in the world, the editor of the 20-year-old DSM-IV has questioned changes in the way DSM-5 classifies some mental disorders. In particular, he a...

DSM-5--the future arrived.

THE NEXT REVISION OF PSYCHIATRY’S DIAGNOSTIC AND Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) will be published in May 2013 and is the first revision of this psychiatric nomenclature in almost 2 decades. DSM-5 involved an international, multidisciplinary team of more than 400 individuals who volunteered vast amounts of their time throughout this 6-year official process, as well as many contri...

DSM-5: the debate continues

We are fortunate to have invited commentaries from the laboratories of Dr Cathy Lord and Dr Fred Volkmar offering their perspectives on the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)-5 criteria for the autism spectrum. Both commentaries note how DSM-5 collapses the earlier diagnostic categories of the pervasive developmental disorders into a single category of autism spectr...

A review of Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder, a new disorder in the DSM-5

Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD)  is a new disorder that has been added to the mood disorders category in the Fifth Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders to distinguish chronic non-periodic irritability from periodic irritability of bipolar disorder. The main feature of DMDD is chronic and severe irritability. Since it is a new diagnostic entity, not much research h...