Impaired Evidence Accumulation as a Transdiagnostic Vulnerability Factor in Psychopathology

Heart rate variability as a transdiagnostic biomarker of psychopathology.

The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC), developed by the National Institute of Mental Health as a neuroscience-informed alternative to traditional psychiatric nosology, is an explicitly dimensional system in which classification of psychopathology is derived inductively (i.e., from basic science), across multiple levels of analysis (e.g., genetic, neural, psychophysiological, and behavioral). Alth...

Phenotypic factor analysis of psychopathology reveals a new body-related transdiagnostic factor

Comorbidity challenges the notion of mental disorders as discrete categories. An increasing body of literature shows that symptoms cut across traditional diagnostic boundaries and interact in shaping the latent structure of psychopathology. Using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, we reveal the latent sources of covariation among nine measures of psychopathological functioning in a p...

The importance of transdiagnostic approach in psychopathology and psychotherapy

In recent years, the use of the “transdiagnostic” term and construct has been considered in the field of psychopathology and psychological treatments. Transdiagnostic models and treatments were developed in contrast to single-diagnosis protocols. Transdiagnostic in psychopathology means addressing common underlying mechanisms in a range of comorbid disorders and in the field of treatment means ...

Stress-Related Psychopathology as a Vulnerability Factor in Drug-Taking: The Role of Sex

The Role of Perfectionism as a Transdiagnostic Factor in the Prediction of Emotional Disorders Symptoms Severity

Objective: Although emotions help us respond compatibly to the problems and opportunities we encounter in life, their deviation can lay the foundation for emotional disorders. Perfectionism is a person’s wish to meet ones as well as others’ expectations, albeit with better quality than what the situation allows. According to research literature it seems that dimension...