Excerpted from "The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum." This piece was written prior to the publication of the new DSM-5, but Grandin anticipated much of the thinking in the new edition. I ...

The American Psychiatric Association released a new edition of the DSM, which doctors use to diagnose and treat mental disorders. Judy Woodruff discusses the changes and implications for both patients ...

The diagnostic manual known as "the Bible of psychiatry" is about to get a major overhaul. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) puts out the tome known in the field as the DSM-5. That stands for ...

The most recent revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) has arrived, and the latest changes have caused divisions among those in the psychiatric community. Often ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Field testing of proposed new diagnostic criteria for many mental disorders showed that, for the most part, they were at least adequately reliable, according to initial reviews ...

My biggest concern regarding DSM 5 is that it will dramatically increase the rates of mental disorder and cheapen the currency of psychiatric diagnosis. The DSM 5 proposals do this two ways: 1) by ...

Understanding the ?Changes in DSM-5 The latest revision of the diagnostic manual does away with the complex multiaxial organization in favor of a simpler chapter order of disorders. The fifth edition ...

To a cacophony of boos, so-whats and even a few cheers, the American Psychiatric Association released the fifth edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM-5, on May 18 ...

Finally. After many contentious years, the American Psychiatric Assn. has unleashed DSM-5, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. If you know one thing about ...

Have neuroscience and genetic findings contributed to DSM.5 (the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)? B. J. Casey and Francis S. Lee. DSM-5 is a revision from ...