Clinical research diagnostic criteria for bipolar illness (CRDC-BP): rationale and validity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the 1970 s, scientific research on psychiatric nosology was summarized in Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC), based solely on empirical data, an important source for the third revision of the official nomenclature of the American Psychiatric Association in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Third Edition (DSM-III). The intervening years, especially with the fourth edition in 1994, saw a shift to a more overtly "pragmatic" approach to diagnostic definitions, which were constructed for many purposes, with research evidence being only one consideration. The latest editions have been criticized as failing to be useful for research. Biological and clinical research rests on the validity of diagnostic definitions that are supported by firm empirical foundations, b

SUBMITTER: Ghaemi SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9561456 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature