Acta clinica Croatica, Vol. 53. No. 4., 2014.
Review article
Person-Oriented Perspectives in Neurology
Marijana Lisak
orcid.org/0000-0002-1225-6922
; Clinical Department of Neurology, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia
Vida Demarin
; Clinical Department of Neurology, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia
Zlatko Trkanjec
; Clinical Department of Neurology, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia
Iris Zavoreo
; Clinical Department of Neurology, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia
Vanja Bašić Kes
; Clinical Department of Neurology, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Person-oriented medicine is characterized by a holistic approach in patient management that embraces physical, psychological, social and spiritual aspects of health and disease. It responds to the needs of patients and health care workers to form an effective therapeutic relationship based on trust, empathy, compassion and responsiveness to the individual needs of a patient. Person-oriented perspectives in neurology include active collaborative partnership between a physician and a patient, and intuitive perception, which has a neurobiological correlate in the human mirror neuron system, thus expressing a considerable impact on the quality of the physician’s diagnostic and therapeutic activities. On the other hand, personalized approach in medicine implies integration of clinical information and personal genotyping. Personalized neurology provides genebased preclinical prediction of disease with improved risk assessment, early detection of disease and targeted intervention. The combination of personalized approach and clinical information accelerates the translation of genetic discoveries into clinical practice, which ultimately results in improved health care system. Person-oriented perspectives contribute significantly to the growing pluralism of medical science and provide a greater humanization of medicine, individualized treatment and autonomy during therapeutic processes.
Keywords
Individualized medicine; Nervous system diseases – diagnosis; Nervous system diseases – therapy; Genetic testing
Hrčak ID:
136742
URI
Publication date:
1.12.2014.
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