The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), published by the American Psychiatric Association, will have a new edition published in 2013. This edition will be called the DSM-5.

A recent study found that 91% of children diagnosed with ASD using DSM-5 criteria were also diagnosed with one of the four DSM-IV autism related disorders. 1 This study shows that most children will ...

With a new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) comes new controversial categorizations. As The Washington Post reported, with the launch of the DSM-5 this coming weekend, ...

For ADHD, the definition is being broadened, meaning the disorder could be diagnosed in more children. In the case of autism, the opposite is true. The new criteria are among the changes that will be ...

To the best of the author's knowledge, this is the first study investigating psychometric and factor structure of ADHD DSM-V derived symptoms. So, it is not possible to compare the current results ...

More children and adults are being diagnosed with ADHD in some countries. Science is helping to understand why — and how best to provide support.

—The updated World Health Organization Adult ADHD Self-Reporting Scale, with a shortened assessment and refined criteria, detected the vast majority of cases in the general population. Reviewed by ...

When news broke that the autism spectrum categories of Asperger’s disorder and Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS) would get subsumed into the wider maw of a general ...

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), published by the American Psychiatric Association, will have a new edition published in 2013. This edition will be called the DSM-5.

Each month, Clinical Advisor makes one new clinical feature available ahead of print. Don’t forget to take the poll. The results will be published in the next month’s issue. The fifth edition of the ...