title: Distinguishing between schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.
abstract: The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) has provided diagnostic reliability across observers while neglecting biological validity. The current theme issue explores the boundaries between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, using neuro-cognition, systems neuroscience, and genetics as points of departure to begin consideration of a biologically based reclassification of these illnesses.
authors.affiliation: *To whom correspondence should be addressed; Whitehall Building 207, ONRC, IOL, 200 Washington Street, Hartford, CT 06106, US; tel: 860-545-7678, fax: 860-545-7797, e-mail: godfrey.pearlson@yale.edu.
authors.forename: Godfrey D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Pearlson
authors.forename: Judith M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Ford
mesh_terms: D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D006801:Humans; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology
keywords: bipolar; classification; schizophrenia; validity