In 2013,the director of the U.S.National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH),announced that,due to the lack of validity data on the DSM system,the NIMH would encourage efforts to develop a new diagnostic system for mental disorders based on biological and psychological markers for these disorders,known as the

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The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) is the new diagnostic system that the NIMH is encouraging efforts to develop, as it is based on biological and psychological markers for mental disorders. This announcement signaled a move away from solely relying on the DSM criteria and towards a more comprehensive approach to understanding mental illness. The ICD is a classification system used by the World Health Organization (WHO), and the prototype model is not a recognized diagnostic system.

In 2013,the Director of the U