Abstract
Personalised medicine has finally been featured in psychiatric journals, but psychiatrists have mainly focused on the promise of using disease mechanisms to personalise treatment. Psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and depression are not diseases, in the medical sense, and are probably more like syndromes. Instead of spending much time and effort focusing on the mechanisms of diseases that may instead be syndromes, the author believes that psychiatrists should (1) learn more about personalising prescription via drug mechanisms, a pharmacological approach to personalised medicine; and (2) reconsider prior attempts by traditional clinical psychopharmacologists to use sophisticated clinical approaches that try to subdivide psychiatric syndromes into groups that may be more homogenous for treatment response.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2014
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/neu.2014.14
Repository Citation
de Leon, Jose, "Focusing on Drug Versus Disease Mechanisms and on Clinical Subgrouping to Advance Personalised Medicine in Psychiatry" (2014). Psychiatry Faculty Publications. 29.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/psychiatry_facpub/29
Notes/Citation Information
Published in Acta Neuropsychiatrica, v. 26, issue 6, p. 327-333.
© Scandinavian College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2014
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