Conference paper
THE PRECISION PSYCHIATRY. An Individualized Approach to the Diseases
Gianfranco Del Buono
; Mental Health Department Hospital “S. Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d’Aragona”, Salerno, Italy
Abstract
The Precision Psychiatry is a new emergent topic in Psychiatry, and is “an approach for treatment and prevention
that takes into account each person’s variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle”. It promises to be even more
transformative than in other fields of medicine, because the psychiatry has not yet benefited from the advanced
diagnostic and therapeutic technologies that now form an integral part of other clinical specialties. It may be an
epistemological change in the field of psychiatry. This paper briefly highlights the story, the features, and the future of
the Precision Psychiatry. Indeed, this approach is becoming a reality with the availability of massive data (derived from
physiological recordings, brain imaging, ‘omics’ biomarkers, environmental exposures, self-reported experience).
Keywords
precision psychiatry; omics; big data; biomarkers
Hrčak ID:
262961
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Publication date:
21.11.2018.
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