The reliability and validity of traditional taxonomies are limited by arbitrary boundaries
between psychopathology and normality, often unclear boundaries between disorders …

We propose a taxonomy of psychopathology based on patterns of shared causal influences
identified in a review of multivariate behavior genetic studies that distinguish genetic and …

High rates of comorbidity are observed between internalizing and externalizing problems,
yet the developmental dynamics of comorbid symptom presentations are not yet well …

In this article, I outline a general framework for the evolutionary analysis of mental disorders
based on the concepts of life history theory. I synthesize and extend a large body of work …

In a bold effort to address the longstanding shortcomings of the Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual (DSM) framework for the classification and diagnosis of psychopathology, the …

Purpose Research on the structure of mental disorders and comorbidity indicates that many
forms of psychopathology and substance use disorders are manifestations of relatively few …

Purpose Classification is the cornerstone of clinical diagnostic practice and research.
However, the extant psychiatric classification systems are not well supported by research …

Multivariate comorbidity research indicates mood and anxiety (internalizing) disorders share
one or more common liabilities, but categorical, dimensional, and hybrid accounts of these …

Guided by the diagnostic nosology, anxiety patients are expected to show defensive
hyperarousal during affective challenge, irrespective of the principal phenotype. In the …

We propose a novel developmentally informed framework to push research beyond a focus
on comorbidity between discrete diagnostic categories and to move toward research based …