NIMH Moves Research Funding Away From DSM

Circle Connections: Policy & Regulatory Updates For the first time, the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH), the world's largest mental health research institute, has shifted its funding support away from the DSM, citing a "lack of validity" and diagnoses based on "clusters of clinical symptoms, not any objective laboratory measure." Instead, NIMH will put more of its research dollars into a new classification system, the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC), to incorporate genetics, imaging and cognitive science that focus more on neurological systems than just a collection of symptoms. RDoC would classify psychopathology based on observable behavior and neurobiological . . .