The adolescent developmental stage appears to be a sensitive period for the onset of
several particular forms of mental disorder that are characterised by heightened emotionality …

Women are about twice as likely as are men to develop depression during their lifetime. This
Series paper summarises evidence regarding the epidemiology on gender differences in …

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 …

A large body of research has emerged over the last decade examining empirical models of
general and specific psychopathology, which take into account comorbidity among …

Objective: Cognitive deficits are a common feature of psychiatric disorders. The authors
investigated the nature of disruptions in neural circuitry underlying cognitive control …

We propose a taxonomy of psychopathology based on patterns of shared causal influences
identified in a review of multivariate behavior genetic studies that distinguish genetic and …

The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) is an empirical effort to address
limitations of traditional mental disorder diagnoses. These include arbitrary boundaries …

Intact cognitive control or executive function has characteristic patterns in both behavior and
functional neurocircuitry. Functional neuroimaging studies have shown that a frontal …

The traditional view that mental disorders are distinct, categorical disorders has been
challenged by evidence that disorders are highly comorbid and exist on a continuum (eg …

We advanced several “riskier tests” of the validity of bifactor models of psychopathology,
which included that the general and specific psychopathology factors should be reliable and …