The two major classifications of mental disorders that are used internationally are the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health (DSM). The ICD covers the entire range of human diseases, but the DSM covers only mental disorders. This chapter reviews the history of thes...

The authors designed a decision support system to assist mental health professionals to perform differential diagnoses of psychotic, mood, and organic mental disorders in accordance with the American Psychiatric Association's revised third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. A prototype system arrived at through a rigorous methodology illustrates a style of dev...

If all goes as planned, the American Psychiatric Association will release a new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) in May 2013. Since 1980, the DSM has provided a shared diagnostic language to clinicians, patients, scientists, school systems, courts, and pharmaceutical and insurance companies; any changes to the influential manual will have serious ramifications. But,...

The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders provides the authoritative list of what are considered to be mental disorders. This list has a tremendous impact on research, funding, and treatment, as well as a variety of civil and forensic decisions. The development of this diagnostic manual is an enormous responsibility. Provided herein are lessons...

Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder was newly included as a diagnostic category in Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders fifth edition (DSM-5), but the knowledge about it in the clinical practice field is still limited. Therefore, the aim of the present article is to introduce this diagnostic category's history, key points of diagnosis, treatment and its impact on clinical pr...

Dear Sir, According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5th edition (DSM‐5), autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are neurodevelopmental disorders whose core clinical features are persisting deficits in social communication and interaction as well as restricted, repetitive behaviors, interests, and activities.[1] Today, there are no biomarkers for ASD, whose diagnosis is sti...

background: providing and sustaining the mental health of mothers who have experienced a traumatic childbirth have significant impact on the health of the mother, family and society. this study aimed to evaluate the effect of early skin-to-skin contact in the first hour of birth on the mental health of mothers with traumatic childbirth. methods: this randomized clinical trial was conducted in 2...

The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5), psychiatry’s guidebook for mental health professionals, insurance companies, and pharmaceutical houses, makes a retrogressive return to earlier times in its core assumptions, a change that most commentators on the manual consider to render it far less productive and clinically useful than its prior versions,...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Mood regulation problems, such as severe chronic irritability or short episodes of mania-like symptoms, are common, impairing and a topic of intense recent interest to clinicians, researchers and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)-5 process. Here, we review the most recent findings about these two presentations and discuss the approaches to their treatment. RECENT F...