DSM-5 field tests reliably detect schizophrenia

December 5, 2012January 3, 2013michelesolis

Clinicians trying out the new version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the DSM-5, largely come to the same conclusions, according to a trio of papers published online October 30 in the American Journal of Psychiatry. For schizophrenia, reliability in diagnosis and in dimensional measures of psychosis scored in the “good” range.

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The shifting diagnostic sands of psychosis

June 30, 2011michelesolis

A new study finds that the diagnosis initially given to 50% of study participants who had been admitted to the hospital for psychosis changed at least once during the ensuing 10 years. These shifts reflected changing symptoms over the course of life, rather than misdiagnosis.

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