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Science 31 October 2003:
Vol. 302. no. 5646, pp. 808 - 810
DOI: 10.1126/science.302.5646.808

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In Sickness or in Health?

Laura Helmuth

Worried that their current diagnostic scheme isn't carving nature at its joints, psychiatrists are contemplating a massive overhaul. It may redraw the boundaries between certain mental illnesses, integrate genetics and neuroscience research, and codify the notion that sometimes there's no bright line between mental health and mental illness.

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