Springfield, VA, USA. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) publishes the Manual for Diagnosis of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) in 1994.

DSM-IV is the desktop reference used most often by physicians and other caregivers for diagnostics, both in the United States and around the world.

The APA named the Work Groups and membership for next revision, DSM-V, mandating an early draft for comment in 2009 and completion scheduled for May 2012.

The APA announcement stimulated wide interest in the professional, patient, and activist communities. TS-Si.org has expanded its coverage of this important development with a variety of articles that touch on the DSM-V deliberations.

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Annotated list originally published 29 May 2008, with periodic updates.

Leuven, Belgium. Images of a sexy women tend to sharpen a man's sexual appetite. But what then? Theoretically, a general reward system may give rise to non-specific effects: exposure to hot stimuli from one domain may thus affect decisions in a different domain. Studies in neuroscience have demonstrated that erotic stimuli activate the same reward circuitry that processes monetary and drug rewards. So, when a man views erotic stimuli, how does it affect his decisions in the other spheres of life?

A recent study shows that men who watched sexy videos or handled lingerie sought immediate gratification — even when they were making practical decisions about money, soda, and candy. Researchers [1] found that the desire for immediate rewards increased in men who touched bras, looked at pictures of beautiful women, or watched video clips of young women in bikinis running through a park.

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Bikinis Instigate Generalized Impatience in Intertemporal Choice. Bram Van den Bergh, Siegfried DeWitte, and Luk Warlop. Journal of Consumer Research 35 85-97. doi: 10.1086 / 525505. [ Download PDF ]

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The current research examines what happens when males are

Springfield, VA, USA. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has named the Work Groups and membership for its coming fifth revision to the Manual for Diagnosis of Mental Disorders (DSM-V).

The DSM is a guide to what the APA terms mental disorders. It is the handbook desktop reference used most often for diagnostics in the United States and internationally.

The manual contains a listing of psychiatric disorders, diagnostic codes, information on the prevalence of each disorder, and diagnostic criteria. The APA advertises the DSM as a non-theoretical guide that does not offer information on causes or treatments.

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APA Names DSM-V Work Group Members: Experts to Revise Manual for Diagnosis of Mental Disorders. News Release No. 08-27. American Psychiatric Association (APA). May 1, 2008. [ Download PDF ] The APA release has the names and personnel rosters for all of the working groups named so far (eff. 1 May 2008).

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The DSM is a publication known as the bible of psychiatry. It is consulted on a regular basis by insurance companies, courts, prisons and schools, as well as by physicians and mental health workers.

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