Director:Nat'l Inst. of Mental Health will walk away from DSM criteria

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3. Second, I somewhat agree that understanding underlying physiology may not capture the entire

breath of psychological influence.

Although my muscles are structured and function exactly like Olympic gymnists, my performance certainly isn't. In addition to genotypic and basic phenotypic variation, I suspect that acquired performance, things learned through exposure and use, is also an important feature of psychological function.

I wouldn't be entirely surprised if it turns out that a brain with normal structure and functioning within physiological norms might also manifest features which are distressing to self or others.

A superficial look at the guiding philosophy of the NIMH project doesn't provide much specificity about where or how mechanisms associated with performance level of acquired features will be located...