Ontologies in the Behavioral Sciences: Accelerating Research and the Spread of Knowledge (2022)
Chapter: Appendix A: Ontological Systems Referenced in the Report
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"Appendix A: Ontological Systems Referenced in the Report." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Ontologies in the Behavioral Sciences: Accelerating Research and the Spread of Knowledge. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/26464.
Appendix A
Ontological Systems Referenced in the Report
| Ontology | Brief Description | Links |
|---|---|---|
| Cognitive Atlas | A collaborative effort to describe how the human brain processes information, involving investigators with expertise in psychology, biology, neuroscience, neurology, linguistics, and other disciplines. | https://www.cognitiveatlas.org/ |
| PROMIS® | A measurement tool for harmonizing measures of patient outcomes. | https://commonfund.nih.gov/promis/index |
| NCI Thesaurus | A regularly updated resource of definitions of biomedical terms and relationships among them that was designed to make it easier for researchers to share data. | https://ncithesaurus.nci.nih.gov/ncitbrowser/ |
| BioPortal | A central website for locating biomedical ontologies. | https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ |
| Big Five Personality Traits | A suggested grouping of personality traits. The grouping provides a model of the primary dimensions of individual differences in personality. | https://dictionary.apa.org/big-five-personality-model |
| Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms | A controlled list of standardized terms and definitions of psychological concepts with a loose hierarchy showing relationships to other terms. The controlled vocabulary allows for indexing, cataloging, and searching of psychological concepts. | https://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/training/thesaurus |
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix A: Ontological Systems Referenced in the Report." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Ontologies in the Behavioral Sciences: Accelerating Research and the Spread of Knowledge. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/26464.
| Ontology | Brief Description | Links |
|---|---|---|
| The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) | A dimensional classification system of a wide range of psychiatric problems. Hierarchical relationships in HiTOP allow for improved classification of psychopathology dimensions to facilitate research and clinical practice. | https://hitop.unt.edu/introduction |
| Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) | A taxonomy of psychopathology that integrates many levels of information from genomics to behavioral processes. 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. | https://www.nimh.nih.gov/research/research-funded-by-nimh/rdoc |
| Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) | A classification of mental disorders using a common language and standard criteria. The DSM features descriptions of mental health conditions based on categories and is used as a diagnostic tool. | https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/dsm |
| International Classification of Diseases (ICD) | A categorization system for physical and mental illnesses. The ICD classifies signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of illness or diseases. | https://www.who.int/standards/classifications/classification-of-diseases |
| Behavioral Change Intervention Ontology (BCIO) | An ontology with a defined set of entities and their relationships using a common language. BCIO is used to organize information in a form that enables efficient accumulation of knowledge and enables links to other knowledge systems. | https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/bcio |
| Gene Ontology | The Gene Ontology provides human-readable and machine-readable information on the functions of genes and has been designed to serve as a foundation for computational analysis of large-scale molecular biology and genetics experiments in biomedical research. | http://geneontology.org/ |
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix A: Ontological Systems Referenced in the Report." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Ontologies in the Behavioral Sciences: Accelerating Research and the Spread of Knowledge. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/26464.
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix A: Ontological Systems Referenced in the Report." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Ontologies in the Behavioral Sciences: Accelerating Research and the Spread of Knowledge. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/26464.
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