Is it time to change the paradigm to address neural development disorders? From research to clinical practice

Journal title RICERCHE DI PSICOLOGIA
Author/s Alessandro Antonietti, Renato Borgatti, Marisa Giorgetti
Publishing Year 2023 Issue 2022/4 Language Italian
Pages 2 P. 7-18 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/rip2022oa14921
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The paper provides the scientific community and the clinic practitioners dealing with neurodevelopmental disorders with a list of open questions about research and diagnosis. Such questions are elicited by the evidence coming from neuroscience investigations and from the outline of a different framework to understand disorders with onset in the developmental period. The broad heterogeneity that characterizes the diagnostic categories of neurodevelopmental disorders has favored the emergence of constructs referable to complexity, multidimensionality, and comorbidity. The reflection is carried-out according to the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) approach. RDoC is a dimensional diagnostic system with the aim of shifting the focus of research and clinical practice away from the existing diagnostic categories towards dimensions of observable behavior and neurobiological measures. The transdiagnostic perspective of the RDoc approach is used here both as a possible criticism of the dominant research paradigms and as a challenge to rethink neurodevelopmental disorders and as a potential solution to intercept the specificities of the phenotypes.

Keywords: ; neurodevelopmental disorders; diagnosis; transdiagnostic research; psychopathology classification systems; research domain criteria (rdoc); comorbidity

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Alessandro Antonietti, Renato Borgatti, Marisa Giorgetti, Cambiare paradigma per i disturbi del neurosviluppo? Dalla ricerca alla pratica clinica in "RICERCHE DI PSICOLOGIA" 4/2022, pp 7-18, DOI: 10.3280/rip2022oa14921