David Adam in Nature:
That’s a vision of the future called precision psychiatry. And it’s a world away from most people’s experiences today. For all the progress that has been made across the medical sciences, psychiatry remains a frustratingly imprecise discipline. Doctors use someone’s symptoms and clinical history to make a diagnosis and prescribe treatments. But mental-health diagnoses are broad and can be vague — a particular therapy might transform one person’s life, but offer little help to someone else with apparently the same disorder.
As a result, people with mental-health conditions often find themselves cycling through treatments and doses, searching, mostly by trial and error, for one that works.
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