Main description:

Our understanding of the mechanisms guiding adaptive behavior and normal psychological functioning and of how these processes become disrupted in various forms of mental disorders has increased but translating the results of basic psychological research into clinical practice is still in the early stages. One problem for this translation is that the classification of mental disorders is still almost exclusively descriptive. The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative aims to redress this by promoting the development of an interdisciplinary science of psychopathology that consists of dimensional constructs integrating models and findings from psychology, biology, and behavioral neuroscience.

This compilation focuses on research in experimental psychopathology that investigates such constructs. It includes theoretical and empirical work on different psychological constructs (such as fear learning and mental imagery) that are relevant for a better understanding of the mechanisms of mental disorders across a large spectrum of categorical diagnoses.

Contents:

Editorial
Psychpathology Research in the Spirit of the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Initiative
by Alfons O. Hamm
Review Articles
Misunderstanding RDoC
by Jessica I. Lake, Cindy M. Yee, and Gregory A. Miller
The Psychophysiology of Anxiety and Mood Disorder: The RDoC Challenge
by Peter J. Lang, Lisa M. McTeague, and Margaret M. Bradley
Original Articles
Challenges of Fear Conditioning Research in the Age of RDoC
by Tina B. Lonsdorf and Jan Richter
Effects of an Anxiety-Specific Psychometric Factor on Fear Conditioning and Fear Generalization
by Christian Baumann, Miriam A. Schiele, Martin J. Herrmann, Tina B. Lonsdorf, Peter Zwanzger,
Katharina Domschke, Andreas Reif, Jurgen Deckert, and Paul Pauli
Trait Worry and Neural Correlates of Emotion Regulation
by Marie Kristin Neudert, Rudolf Stark, Laura Kress, and Andrea Hermann
Assessing Hedonic Bias in Emotional Scene Memory: Implications for Clinical Research
by Margaret M. Bradley, Marie Karlsson, and Peter J. Lang
Frontostriatal Connectivity During Reward Anticipation: A Neurobiological Mechanism Cutting Across
Alcohol Use Disorder and Depression?
by Alena Becker, Martin Fungisai Gerchen, Martina Kirsch, Bettina Ubl, Sivaniya Subramaniapillai,
Carsten Diener, Christine Kuehner, Falk Kiefer, and Peter Kirsch
Dissociating Pathological Buying From Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms Using Delay Discounting
by Jennifer Nicolai and Morten Moshagen
Bridging the Gaps Between Basic Science and Cognitive-Behavioral Treatments for Anxiety Disorders in
Routine Care: Current Status and Future Demands
by Jan Richter, Andre Pittig, Maike Hollandt, and Ulrike Lueken
Identifying Patterns in Complex Field Data: Clustering Heart Rate Responses of Agoraphobic Patients
Undertaking Situational Exposure
Andrew J. White, Dieter Kleinbohl, Thomas Lang, Alfons O. Hamm, Alexander L. Gerlach, and Georg W. Alpers