Signs of mental ill health that cut across psychiatric diagnostic categories at high rates are
typically viewed as non-specific occurrences, downgraded in importance and disregarded …

Abstract The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory–Trait version (STAI-T) was developed to measure
an individual's tendency to experience anxiety, but it may lack discriminant evidence of …

Abstract Purpose of Review This contribution reviews the newest empirical evidence
regarding the burden of mental and addictive disorders and weighs their importance for …

Executive function (EF) skills are neurocognitive skills that support the reflective, top-down
coordination and control of other brain functions, and there is neural and behavioral …

Alcohol use disorder is a major contributor to the morbidity and mortality burden worldwide.
It often coexists with other psychiatric disorders; however, the nature of this comorbidity is …

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

In recent years, the network approach to psychopathology has been advanced as an
alternative way of conceptualizing mental disorders. In this approach, mental disorders arise …

Background Psychological treatments occupy an important place in evidence-based mental
health treatments. Now is an exciting time to fuel treatment research: a pressing demand for …

The diagnosis of mental disorder initially appears relatively straightforward: Patients present
with symptoms or visible signs of illness; health professionals make diagnoses based …

Experimental psychopathology has been the primary path to gaining causal knowledge
about variables maintaining mental disorders. Yet a radically different approach to …