Citing the abstract of the paper published by Steven Hyman titled ‘Can neuroscience be integrated into the DSM-V?’ (Nat Rev Neuroscience 2007 Sep;8(9):725-32.)
“To date, the diagnosis of mental disorders has been based on clinical observation, specifically: the identification of symptoms that tend to cluster together, the timing of the symptoms' appearance, and their tendency to resolve, recur or become chronic. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and the International Classification of Disease, the manuals that specify these diagnoses and the criteria for making them, are currently undergoing revision. It is thus timely to ask whether neuroscience has progressed to the point that the next editions of these manuals can usefully incorporate information about brain structure and function.”
The answer is YES, but to a limited preliminary extent. The DSM will have to undergo an INTERMEDIATE evolutionary phase, a transitional theory-based and testable-prediction phase that will evolve it to a real brain-related diagnosis for psychiatry.
In order to archive that, - computational-neuroscience must be applied as a theoretical framework to psychiatric diagnosis.
Such a framework has been ALREADY developed under the title of ‘Clinical Brain Profiling’ CBP –
See a brief (fast) introduction to it at: http://neuroanalysis.googlepages.com/brainprofiling
A comprehensive detailed explanation to CBP (including three book references) is presented at: http://neuroanalysis.googlepages.com/
I ASK YOU to invite me to one of your committee gatherings to explain and defend this line of thought.
Best wishes
Avi Peled MD
http://neuroanalysis.googlepages.com/author