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Mental disorders of known aetiology and precision medicine in psychiatry: a promising but neglected alliance [Editorial]

Fraguas, D., Díaz-Caneja, C. M., State, M. W., O'Donovan, Michael C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7073-2379, Gur, R. E. and Arango, C. 2017. Mental disorders of known aetiology and precision medicine in psychiatry: a promising but neglected alliance [Editorial]. Psychological Medicine 47 (2) , pp. 193-197. 10.1017/S0033291716001355

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Abstract

Personalized or precision medicine is predicated on the assumption that the average response to treatment is not necessarily representative of the response of each individual. A commitment to personalized medicine demands an effort to bring evidence-based medicine and personalized medicine closer together. The use of relatively homogeneous groups, defined using a priori criteria, may constitute a promising initial step for developing more accurate risk-prediction models with which to advance the development of personalized evidence-based medicine approaches to heterogeneous syndromes such as schizophrenia. However, this can lead to a paradoxical situation in the field of psychiatry. Since there has been a tendency to loosely define psychiatric disorders as ones without a known aetiology, the discovery of an aetiology for psychiatric syndromes (e.g. 22q11.2 deletion syndrome in some cases of schizophrenia), while offering a path toward more precise treatments, may also lead to their reclassification away from psychiatry. We contend that psychiatric disorders with a known aetiology should not be removed from the field of psychiatry. This knowledge should be used instead to guide treatment, inasmuch as psychotherapies, pharmacotherapies and other treatments can all be valid approaches to mental disorders. The translation of the personalized clinical approach inherent to psychiatry into evidence-based precision medicine can lead to the development of novel treatment options for mental disorders and improve outcomes.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG)
Medicine
Uncontrolled Keywords: Personalized medicine, psychiatry, risk-prediction models, schizophrenia, 22q11.2 deletion syndrome
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
ISSN: 0033-2917
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 30 May 2018
Date of Acceptance: 5 May 2016
Last Modified: 13 Nov 2023 06:59
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/102579

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