Personalized medicine in psychiatry

Area of Science:

• Medical Science
• Genomics
• Psychiatry

Background:

• Personalized medicine tailors treatment and prevention strategies based on a patient's unique clinical, genetic, and environmental profile.
• This approach represents a shift from one-size-fits-all medical practices.

Purpose of the Study:

• To review current tools and biomarkers for personalized medicine.
• To explore applications in diagnostics, treatment selection, and risk assessment.
• To identify challenges and solutions for implementing personalized medicine in psychiatry.

Main Methods:

• Literature review of existing research on personalized medicine tools and biomarkers.
• Analysis of phenomenological features, clinical risk factors, and biomarkers.
• Examination of applications in diagnostics, treatment, and prevention.

Main Results:

• Identified key tools, features, risk factors, and biomarkers for personalized medicine.
• Detailed applications in diagnostics, treatment selection, side-effect risk assessment, and prevention.
• Highlighted the gap between research and clinical practice in psychiatry due to diagnostic limitations.

Conclusions:

• Current psychiatric diagnostic categories are too broad for effective biological research and personalized medicine.
• Significant heterogeneity within diagnostic groups hinders the development of targeted therapies.
• Solutions are proposed to bridge the gap between research and clinical practice, advancing personalized psychiatry.