Developing the Research Base for DSM-V and ICD-11

描述（由申请人提供）：申请支持五年内举行的一系列十一次会议，这些会议将汇集领先的国内和国际研究人员，重点关注代表未来 DSM-V 工作组面临的一些最紧迫诊断问题的具体诊断问题。提议召开这一系列会议的目的有以下三个： 1）促进科学界重要成员之间的国际合作，以增加未来发展统一的 DSM/ICD 的可能性； 2) 促进必要的实证研究，以便就 DSM-IV 中确定的关键诊断缺陷做出明智的决策； 3) 对于现有 DSM-IV 标准可能阻碍研究进展的疾病，促进制定共识标准，研究界可以使用该标准来替代临床 DSM 标准，用于未来精神障碍病因学和病理生理学的研究。十一次会议中的每一次都将有三个总体目标：1）对与将成为会议焦点的特定诊断问题相关的当前数据进行审查2）为研究设计制定一个以问题为中心的短期研究议程，以显着增强解决这些诊断问题所需的经验数据库； 3) 制定策略以促进相关经验数据的收集。研究综述、研究议程和替代研究标准的摘要将通过出版专着、会议演讲以及在 DSM 网站上发布的方式传播给研究和临床界。通过刺激系统性的国际合作努力来丰富诊断相关的研究数据库，我们希望促进制定更有效且最终统一的国家和国际精神障碍分类。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Application is made for the support of a series of eleven conferences over five years which will bring together leading national and international researcher investigators to focus on specific diagnostic issues representing some of the most pressing diagnostic issues facing the future DSM-V workgroups. This series of conferences is proposed with the following three aims in mind: 1) to promote international collaboration among important members of the scientific community in order to increase the likelihood of developing a future unified DSM/ICD; 2) to stimulate the empirical research necessary to allow informed decision making regarding crucial diagnostic deficiencies identified in DSM-IV; 3) for those disorders in which the existing DSM-IV criteria may hinder research advances, to facilitate the development of consensus criteria that could be used by the research community as an alternative to the clinical DSM criteria for future research into the etiology and pathophysiology of mental disorders. Each of the eleven conference will have three general objectives: 1) to present reviews of current data relevant to the specific diagnostic question(s) that will be the focus of the conference 2) to develop a short-term issue-focused research agenda for the design of studies that may significantly enhance the empirical data base necessary for resolving these diagnostic issues; and 3) to develop strategies to facilitate the collection of the relevant empirical data. Summaries of the research reviews, research agendas, and alternative research criteria will be disseminated to the research and clinical communities through published monographs, presentations at conferences, and posting on a DSM web site. By stimulating a systematic collaborative international effort to enrich the diagnostically-relevant research data base, we hope to facilitate the development of a more valid and ultimately unified national and international classification of mental disorders.