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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]More about how the DSM disorders are just collections of symptoms:

When the DSM-5 process was launched several years ago, the clear hope by all involved was that, finally, psychiatric diagnoses would include, in addition to signs and symptoms, various biomarkers of the major disorders including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression, with reasonable measures of sensitivity and specificity. Because the risk for these disorders has a major genetic component, it seemed plausible to anticipate including specific genetic markers such as single nucleotide polymorphisms or structural genomic abnormalities, (for example, copy number variations), that increase disease vulnerability and perhaps denote biologically distinct alternative phenotypes. This unbridled enthusiasm followed on the heels of the sequencing of the human genome and the then-existing strong belief that many complex diseases in medicine would be simplified by the results of genome-wide association studies. However, that promise has not been realized in psychiatry, nor in many other branches of medicine, although historic insights about the genetic architecture of complex diseases have emerged. Moreover, our understanding of the underpinnings of the genetic basis of disease vulnerability and treatment response has become considerably more sophisticated because of, to name a few emerging disciplines, epigenetics, non-coding RNAs, microRNAs, transcriptomics, and proteomics.

https://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/11/202[/quote]

I don;t think you understood the paragraph you just posted. It doesn't say that "DSM disorders are just a collection of symptoms."[/quote]
How would you summarize the paragraph?[/quote]

Your statement "DSM disorders [b]are just a collection of symptoms[/b]" is wrong.  This paragraph says that the genetic basis of these disorders is complex and understanding this genetic basis is taking the form of sophisticated, cross-discipline, analysis.  but there is a genetic basis, or as the paragraph states "[b]the risk for these disorders has a major genetic component.[/b]"  The particular genetic basis has not been identified yet so you may be correct in saying that DSM disorders are currently diagnosed through a collection of symptoms.  But thats not what you said.  What you said is that they are just a collection of symptoms.  If you are going to use the google to argue your over-simplified view of psychiatric disorders at least try to understand what you post.[/quote
I asked the question, but I did not quote that paragraph. Please stop assuming that there's only one person disagrees with you. Thank you.[/quote]

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