Why the DSM?

Mixed features of depression: why DSM-5 is wrong (and so was DSM-IV).

The DSM system has never acknowledged a central position for mixed states; thus, mixed depressions have been almost completely neglected for decades. Now, DSM-5 is proposing diagnostic criteria for depression with mixed features that will lead to more misdiagnosis and inadequate treatment of this syndrome. Different criteria, based on empirically stronger evidence than exists for the DSM-5 crit...

Providing Hardware Dsm Performance at Software Dsm Cost Providing Hardware Dsm Performance at Software Dsm Cost

Emerging trends in commodity network technology coupled with key insights from academic research in active memory systems are leading toward the realization of hardware DSM on commodity clusters. We call the result of this convergence active memory clusters. After discussing the current state of the art in hardware DSM, clusters, and software DSM architectures, we highlight the key di erences b...

The cycle of classification: DSM-I through DSM-5.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) was created in 1952 by the American Psychiatric Association so that mental health professionals in the United States would have a common language to use when diagnosing individuals with mental disorders. Since the initial publication of the DSM, there have been five subsequent editions of this manual published (including the DSM-II...

The SMG DSM System

Psychopathy and the DSM.

Psychopathy is one of the more well-established personality disorders. However, its relationship with the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) has been controversial. The purpose of this article is to trace and discuss the history of this relationship from the very first edition of the DSM to the current fifth edition. Emphasized in part...