Developing constructs for psychopathology research: Research domain criteria.

Developing constructs for psychopathology research: research domain criteria.

There exists a divide between findings from integrative neuroscience and clinical research focused on mechanisms of psychopathology. Specifically, a clear correspondence does not emerge between clusters of complex clinical symptoms and dysregulated neurobiological systems, with many apparent redundancies. For instance, many mental disorders involve multiple disruptions in putative mechanistic f...

Constructing constructs for psychopathology: the NIMH research domain criteria.

As a commentary for the special section on Reconceptualizing the Classification of Mental Disorders, this article begins with a description of the impetus for the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health's (NIMH) Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative and provides an update of progress on that initiative to date. The commentary then engages the articles in this special section, beginning wi...

How developmental psychopathology theory and research can inform the research domain criteria (RDoC) project.

The recently proposed Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) project has the potential to stimulate new research and overcome many of the limitations of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders taxonomy. In the present article we focus, in three main sections, on how theory and research from developmental psychopathology can inform RDoC. First, we discuss the ontology of mental illnes...

Exploring the Constructs of Evaluative Criteria for Interpretivist Research

Interpretivist research is a term that describes a paradigm of research within the field of information systems. Just as we are still trying to agree on a definition of Information Systems (IS), we are also attempting to define the criteria for evaluating quality interpretivist research for the IS profession. This is particularly difficult as IS has a history of applying scientific methods to d...

NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoC)