Citation

McTeague LM. Psychophysiology 2016; 53(3): 323-327.

Affiliation

Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Society for Psychophysiological Research, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/psyp.12602

PMID

26877120

Abstract

The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative endeavors to foster a science of psychopathology based around dimensions of brain-behavior relationships as opposed to subjectively based diagnostic categories. A rapidly accumulating array of transdiagnostic commonalities, across multiple objective and subjective measures, underscores the clear potential of this initiative. At the same time, a road map for guiding future RDoC research efforts is needed that draws upon the wealth of extant disorder-specific findings. In this issue, Hamm and colleagues provide an example of conceptualizing within-disorder processes in terms of dimensional brain-behavior relationships that advances the understanding of panic disorder with agoraphobia beyond the conventional nosological framework. Their findings and conceptual model are reviewed and discussed in terms of broader transdiagnostic implications.

Language: en