A Clinical Staging Model for Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder: Is It Ready for Prime Time?

Leonardo F. Fontenelle; Murat Yücel

doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2019.01.014

doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2019.01.014

A Clinical Staging Model for Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder: Is It Ready for Prime Time?

Leonardo F. Fontenelle

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Murat Yücel

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EClinicalMedicine15.10

Volume: 7, Pages: 65 - 72

Published: Jan 1, 2019

Abstract

Recent changes to the diagnostic classification of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), including its removal from the anxiety/neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders chapters of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) and International Classification of Diseases 11th Revision (ICD-11), are based on growing evidence of unique pathogenic signatures and linked diagnostic and treatment approaches....