One goal is to develop new drugs to treat psychiatric disorders, as the field still uses meds that went on the market decades ago. But scientists say the complexity of mental illness — including the elusiveness of clear biomarkers — has made that tricky.
The science of precision medicine has made leaps in the past couple decades. It helps doctors use genetics and other data to figure out how to treat individual patients in a number of diseases, such as cancer and cystic fibrosis.A group of researchers based in Massachusetts is hoping to change that.suffers from anxiety and depression, and as someone who works in health care — as a genetic counselor — they are open to a range of treatments.
This is the sort of trial and error that makes up the backbone of the psychiatric profession, and yet many in the field say that shouldn’t still be the case.what’s called precision — or personalized — psychiatry. “But holy moly, that is a slow burn,” Insel said. “And it doesn't really respond to the urgency that so many people are now feeling, especially through the pandemic.”Center for Precision PsychiatrySome of the center’s work focuses on genetics, and some on brain imaging, large data sets — even some animal models.
Ideally, that would shrink the trial-and-error time spent on treatments that don’t work, avoid some side effects, and — in one of the most active areas of research — even help predict who is at greatest risk for attempting suicide.
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