New Frontiers Meeting takes first steps to improve old classifications

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The New Frontiers Meeting 2024 aims to reach a consensus roadmap for building a new diagnostic framework for mental disorders by discussing its rationale, outlook, and consequences with stakeholders. This framework would instantiate a set of principles and procedures by which research could continuously improve precision diagnostics. By the end of the meeting we aim to draw out the process for realising such a framework. This will concern raising global alignment on the initiative with all stakeholders, reaching agreement on the way forward to better define and (longitudinally) measure neuropsychiatric conditions, harmonising (translational) methodologies and data sets across the community, and mobilising resources to implement and validate the framework. 

Period18-Mar-2024

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  • TitleNew Frontiers Meeting takes first steps to improve old classifications
    Degree of recognitionInternational
    Media name/outletBioWorld
    Media typeWeb
    Country/TerritoryNetherlands
    Date18/03/2024
    DescriptionTo Steve Hyman, the manual that clinicians currently use to diagnose mental disorders is an active obstacle to getting a scientific understanding of those disorders. Hyman, who is director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute, MIT and Harvard, and a former director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), listed multiple weaknesses of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), whose diagnoses, he said, are “arbitrary, rigid, life-stage and context-insensitive,” as well as blind to the fact that mental disorders exist along a continuum.
    Producer/AuthorAnette Breindl
    URLhttps://www.bioworld.com/articles/706704-new-frontiers-meeting-takes-first-steps-to-improve-old-classifications?v=preview
    PersonsMartien Kas
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