For over six years the DSM-IV Task Force and members of the DSM-IV Work Groups have participated in a comprehensive effort of empirical review leading to the publication of the fourth edition of the American Psychiatric Associations Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). This first volume of the DSM-IV Sourcebook chronicles these efforts and their results, documenting the rationale and empirical support for the text and criteria sets presented in DSM-IV. From a total of five volumes, the first three contain the DSM-IV literature reviews and summarize the DSM-IV Work Group efforts that led to the publication of the DSM-IV Options Book.This, the first volume, presents the reviews for substance use disorders; delirium, dementia, and amnestic and other cognitive disorders; psychotic disorders; medication-induced movement disorders; and sleep disorders.Each review contains the following six sections: • Statement of the issueexplicitly outlines the issues addressed in the review.• Significance of the issueframes the importance of each issue and discusses its clinical and empirical significance.• Methoddocuments the extent to which the reviews were systematic and comprehensive in their coverage of the literature.• Resultsprovides an objective and thorough summary of the findings most relevant to each issue.• Discussionaddresses the implications of the clinical research findings for DSM-IV.• Recommendationsrecommendations for DSM-IV based on the review of the literature.

Widiger, Thomas A., PhD (Univ of Kentucky); Frances, Allen J., MD (Duke Univ); Pincus, Harold Alan, MD (American Psychiatric Association); Ross, Ruth, MA; First, Michael B., MD; Davis, Wendy, EdMThe contributors represent the specialties of psychiatry and behavioral science, psychology, child psychology, pediatrics, neurology, and family and community medicine. Most are from academic medical centers, hospitals, and psychiatry institutes in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Puerto Rico, Switzerland, and New Zealand. Institutions prominently represented include Columbia, Yale, UCLA, Cornell, Oregon Social Learning Center, Harvard, Univ of Pittsburgh, and Univ of Pennsylvania.

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