Publication date: Available online 2 August 2019
Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
Author(s): Dean McKay
Abstract
The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) is a major initiative of the National Institute of Mental Health that aims to identify empirically based indicators of psychiatric conditions. It is based on a matrix of major domains of function by hierarchically arranged levels of analysis from genes, through neural circuits and up through paradigms of investigation. There are significant implications for obsessive-compulsive and related disorders in the RDoC. This special series of papers aims to elucidate some of these in the areas of cognitive control, developmental processes, animal models, and cognitive-behavioral interventions. It is anticipated that this series of papers may inform a broad research agenda for obsessive-compulsive research in the context of the RDoC.