Premium
Commentary: Are ADHD symptoms habit‐like? – a commentary on Goodman et al (2014)
Author(s) -
Tannock Rosemary
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/jcpp.12258
Subject(s) - psychology , mechanism (biology) , psychotherapist , criticism , child and adolescent psychiatry , psychiatry , clinical psychology , epistemology , art , philosophy , literature
The recent publication of the latest version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM‐5) unleashed a torrent of dissatisfaction with and criticism of the ongoing use of a symptom‐based classification system, based on descriptive phenotypical features. Thus, the ‘multiple memory systems’ framework proposed in the accompanying Annual Research Review by Goodman et al. ( Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry , 55, 2014, XX) as a potential explanatory mechanism underlying several psychiatric disorders, is innovative and consistent with an emergent focus on transdiagnostic core mechanisms. In this commentary, I discuss the ‘merit and mire’ of the proposed framework, focusing on its potential for delineating neurobehavioral mechanisms underlying psychiatric disorders, with particular emphasis on one of the neurodevelopmental disorders, ADHD.