The human brain undergoes a prolonged period of cortical development that spans multiple
decades. During childhood and adolescence, cortical development progresses from lower …

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is characterized by persistent depressed mood, loss of
interest or pleasure in previously enjoyable activities, recurrent thoughts of death, and …

Importance Mental health professionals typically encounter patients at 1 point in patients'
lives. This cross-sectional window understandably fosters focus on the current presenting …

The network approach to psychopathology posits that mental disorders can be
conceptualized and studied as causal systems of mutually reinforcing symptoms. This …

Abstract Concepts of cognitive control (CC) and executive function (EF) are defined in terms
of their relationships with goal-directed behavior versus habits and controlled versus …

Mentalizing is the capacity to understand others and oneself in terms of internal mental
states. It is assumed to be underpinned by four dimensions: automatic–controlled, internally …

Psychiatry has always been characterized by a range of different models of and approaches
to mental disorder, which have sometimes brought progress in clinical practice, but have …

Research into cognitive functions across psychological disorders suggests that cognitive
deficiencies may be present across multiple disorders, potentially pointing to a …

The applied social science literature using factor and network models continues to grow
rapidly. Most work reads like an exercise in model fitting, and falls short of theory building …

The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) is a scientific effort to address
shortcomings of traditional mental disorder diagnoses, which suffer from arbitrary …