Science News About RDoC
- Sensorimotor Domain Added to the RDoC Framework
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• Institute Update
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) announces the addition of the new Sensorimotor domain to the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) framework. The aim of the new domain is to help foster earlier and more precise identification of the role of motor systems disruptions in psychopathology and aid in the development of more effective treatments for people who are affected with these disruptions.
- NIMH Releases Updates to its RDoC Framework
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• Institute Update
The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) is a dynamic and continually developing framework for studying mental disorders. Now, the RDoC Unit has unveiled changes to the RDoC framework–a reorganization of content within the Positive Valence domain.
- New Processing Technique Helps Researchers Use Electronic Health Records to Study Biological Contributors to Mental Illnesses
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• Science Update
Researchers have found a way to scan electronic health records that helps identify associations between broad RDoC-based dimensions of behavioral function and biological contributors to mental illnesses.
- Different Approaches to Understanding and Classifying Mental Disorders
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• Science Update
Research in a wide range of disciplines supports the idea that mental disorders result from the complex interplay of biological, developmental, social, and environmental processes; however, the more we learn about mental disorders, the more we realize there are still gaps in our understanding of how best to classify, diagnose, and treat them.
- NIMH Releases Strategic Research Priorities Update
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• Institute Update
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) recently released its second annual update of the Strategic Research Priorities.
- RDoC Webinar - Using the RDoC Framework in Developmental Research
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• Science Update
NIMH’s Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Unit hosts a webinar titled “Using the RDoC Framework in Developmental Research.”
- RDoC Webinar - Reward Sensitivity and Depression: From Mechanism to Implementation
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• Science Update
NIMH’s Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Unit, the Delaware Project, and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) conduct the second webinar in a series examining the science-to-service pipeline in psychology and psychiatry.
- Webinar: RDoC - Fear & Anxiety: From Mechanisms to Implementation
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• Institute Update
This November 2016 RDoC webinar highlights the role of fear and anxiety in disorders such as phobias and depression.