BETWEEN DSM AND RDoC: THE SYNAPSES TO SYSTEMS PARADIGM
ALAN EPPEL Psychiatry is a dynamic and rapidly evolving medical speciality. It is now at a transition point in its history. The limitations of the DSM and ICD systems have become apparent while at the same time the promise of the neuroscience ..
- Posted by Alan Eppel
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WHY EVOLUTIONARY THEORY SHOULD GUIDE THE NEW PARADIGM SHIFT IN PSYCHIATRY
Tinbergen (1963) famously described a framework for understanding behavior in which he emphasized that in order to understand behavior we must appreciate not only its proximate but also its ultimate or evolutionary causes. While evolutionary t..
- Posted by Sachin Sarin MD
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RESEARCH FUNDING IN PSYCHIATRY : HAVE NIMH AND CIHR OVERLOOKED SYSTEMIC BIAS?
Vol 2 #11 Mona Gupta MD CM, FRCPC, PhD University of Montreal Introduction The psychiatric research enterprise has grown considerably over the last two generations and the quest to link the clinical manifestations of mental illnesses to und..
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Does Generalized Anxiety Disorder Exist?
Vol 3 #4 Alan Eppel MB, FRCPC “The diagnosis of generalised anxiety disorder is a distraction of no value. It is highly unreliable, co-occuring with many other disorders of firmer diagnostic status……..classification would be ..
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