Four Sessions Will Focus on the DSM in Progress

Four informational sessions focusing on work currently underway for the next DSM will be presented at the Annual Meeting.

And for those who can’t wait, you can meet some of the people behind the next DSM this afternoon at 5:30 p.m. PT at one of the Annual Meeting’s new features: Meet the Professor Sessions. In this interactive one-hour discussion, attendees can engage in a lively dialogue with panelists about the strengths and limitations of the DSM and provide feedback on the framework for the next iteration of this manual.

APA’s 17-member Future of DSM Strategic Committee is seeking to create a diagnostic system for the next iteration of the DSM, which will be renamed the Diagnostic and Scientific Manual. The goal is for the new DSM to more holistically capture the variability in presentations among patients with psychiatric symptoms and address the comorbidity that currently characterizes many psychiatric patients across diagnoses.

The four Annual Meeting sessions include:

• Future of the DSM: Living Document and Education and Dissemination Subcommittees — Chair: Maria Oquendo, M.D., Ph.D. Presenters: Nitin Gogtay, M.D.; Jonathan E. Alpert, M.D., PhD.


• Future of the DSM: A Strategic Vision — Presenters: Milton Wainberg, M.D.; Karen Glaze Drexler, M.D.; Diana Clarke, Ph.D.


• Integrating Neurobiology and Psychiatric Nosology: DSM in the Next Era — Chair: Jonathan E. Alpert, M.D., Ph.D. Presenters: Leanne Williams, Ph.D.; Kenneth Wengler, Ph.D.; Anand Kumar, M.D.; Tory Eisenlohr-Moul, Ph.D.


• The Future of Psychiatric Classification: Strategic Work on a New Diagnostic and Scientific Manual (DSM) — Chair: Maria Oquendo, M.D., Ph.D. Presenters: Jonathan E. Alpert, M.D., Ph.D.; Dost Öngür, M.D., Ph.D.; Nitin Gogtay, M.D.

In an email to Psychiatric News, Nitin Gogtay, M.D., deputy medical director and vice president of research for APA as well as a vice chair of the Future of DSM Strategic Committee, said: “Collectively, these sessions will highlight the planned direction for the next iteration of the DSM … that is forward looking, holistic in understanding the patient, modular, and extensible, while continuing to be scientifically grounded.”

For dates, times, and locations of these and other sessions, check the APA Meetings App. ■