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The American Psychiatric Association announced that it will release the next edition of the DSM in the coming years, and one of its major plans is to modernize the manual by introducing biology. I was a member of the DSM’s strategic committee between May 2024 and August 2026 and contributed to the subcommittee tasked with integrating neurobiology into the manual.
Researchers’ understanding of the biology of mental disorders is still slowly evolving. So my DSM colleagues and I decided to take a more nuanced approach to incorporate neurobiology into the diagnosis of psychiatric conditions.