Benjamin Bernard Lahey is an American psychologist and developmental epidemiologist. He is the

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Professor in the Departments of Health Studies and Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the

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. He has conducted research on psychological problems in children, adolescents, and adults such as ADHD and

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, and he was a member of a scientific panel that constructed the current definition of ADHD in the 1990s. He was one of the authors of the papers that first hypothesized a hierarchical organization of dimensions of psychological problems, with a general factor at the top of the hierarchy. He is a fellow of the

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and the Association for Psychological Science. He is also a member of both the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology and the

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, as well as a former president of both organizations. He is the author of "Dimensions of Psychological Problems: Replacing DSM Diagnoses with a More Science-Based and Less Stigmatizing Alternative," published in 2021 by Oxford University Press, which calls for sweeping changes in how we think about psychological problems. Lahey has received the Distinguished Research Award from the Society of Clinical and Adolescent Psychology.

Work

* Oxford University Press published his 2021 book, "Dimensions of psychological problems: Replacing diagnostic categories with a more science-based and less stigmatizing alternative." .

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