[The RDoC Project: the neuropsychiatric classification of tomorrow?].
This article gives a synthesis and overview of the history, methodological principles and scientific and media reception of the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Project launched in 2009 by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). It is shown how the RDoC project opposes on several points the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders (DSM), but most particularly by focusing on the normal functioning of the brain with data from genetics, cognitive neuroscience and behavioral sciences. It is argued that this project is a bet on the future and that its success largely depends on the adhesion of the American researchers to the new framework it offers. However, paradoxically, this framework is still to be built.
Université Bordeaux Montaigne, UFR humanités, laboratoire SPH, domaine universitaire, 33607 Pessac, France.
Steeves
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Demazeux
Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires en bioéthique, 50 avenue F.D. Roosevelt, 1050, Bruxelles, Belgique.
Vincent
V
Pidoux
D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D009315:National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.); D058027:Neuropsychiatry; D014481:United States