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Received: 2 October 2019

Accepted: 9 January 2020

First Online: 27 January 2020

Competing interests

: DJS has received research grants or consultancy honoraria from Lundbeck and Sun.MB has received Grant/Research Support from the NIH, Cooperative Research Centre, Simons Autism Foundation, Cancer Council of Victoria, Stanley Medical Research Foundation, Medical Benefits Fund, National Health and Medical Research Council, Medical Research Futures Fund, Beyond Blue, Rotary Health, A2 milk company, Meat and Livestock Board, Woolworths, Avant and the Harry Windsor Foundation, has been a speaker for Astra Zeneca, Lundbeck, Merck, Pfizer, and served as a consultant to Allergan, Astra Zeneca, Bioadvantex, Bionomics, Collaborative Medicinal Development, Lundbeck Merck, Pfizer and Servier.MM has chaired the ICD-11 Working Group on Mood and Anxiety Disorders and has been a member of the DSM-5 Work Group on Mood Disorders. Apart from this, he has no potential conflicts of interests to declare.AMR, PdJ, PB, PS, and YAdV declare that they have no competing interests.EV has received grants and served as consultant, advisor or CME speaker for the following entities: AB-Biotics, Abbott, Allergan, Angelini, Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma, Galenica, Janssen, Lundbeck, Novartis, Otsuka, Sage, Sanofi-Aventis, and Takeda.KMP reports no conflicts or competing interests. She served on the Culture Consultation Group for the DSM-5. She has received funds from Shire Pharmaceutical for an independent investigator research study.CMG reports no conflicts or competing interests but reports several broader interests, which, however, did not influence this paper, including Consultant to Sunovion and Weight Watchers International, honoraria for lectures, CME activities and presentations at scientific conferences, and royalties from Guilford Press and Taylor & Francis Publishers for academic books.NAF has received personal fees from Sun, Abbott, Lundbeck, Taylor and Francis, and Oxford University Press; personal fees and non-financial support from Otsuka-Lundbeck, the MHRA, the BAP, the RANZCP, and Wiley; grants and non-financial support from the EU, ECNP, and Shire; non-financial support from the Indian Association of Biological Psychiatry, WHO, CINP, International Forum of Mood and Anxiety Disorders, International College of Obsessive Compulsive Spectrum Disorders, and RCPsych; and grants and non-financial support from the NIHR, MRC, and Wellcome.PTC-K was chair of the Gender Identity Disorders Subworking Group of the DSM-5.WG was a Member of the APA Working Group on Psychotic Disorders. He was a Member of the WHO Topic Advisory Group on Mental and Behavioral Disorders, and he is a Member of the Field Study Coordination Group, of the WHO FIC ICD-11 Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee, and of the WHO Advisory Group on the Implementation of ICD-11.AM, CRB, DJS, WG, MM, AM, KMP, NAF, PB, and PTC-K were members of the International Advisory Group and/or Expert Working Groups involved in the development of ICD-11 Mental, Behavioral or Neurodevelopmental Disorders. GMR is a member of the WHO Secretariat, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse. He has no competing interests pertaining to this submission.