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Appendix A: Ontological Systems Referenced in the Report
Pages 133-134

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... Thesaurus of A controlled list of standardized https://www.apa.org/pubs/ Psychological terms and definitions of psychological databases/training/thesaurus Index Terms concepts with a loose hierarchy showing relationships to other terms. The controlled vocabulary allows for indexing, cataloging, and searching of psychological concepts.
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... RDoC provides a framework to understand the nature of mental health and illness in terms of varying degrees of dysfunction in general psychological/biological systems. Diagnostic A classification of mental disorders https://www.psychiatry.org/ and Statistical using a common language and psychiatrists/practice/dsm Manual standard criteria.
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  • domain criteria
  • organize information
  • regularly updated
  • standard criteria

  • efficient accumulation
  • index terms
  • clinical practice
  • relationships using
  • nci thesaurus

  • controlled vocabulary
  • mental illnesses
  • mental disorders
  • vocabulary allows
  • primary dimensions

  • loose hierarchy
  • health disorders
  • hitop allow
  • ontology provides
  • share data

  • information nih
  • updated resource
  • conditions based
  • dsm features
  • enables efficient

  • mental health
  • biomedical ontologies
  • enables links
  • controlled list
  • diagnostic tool


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