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Genetic testing for psychiatric medications: No good research yet, report finds
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30081
Subject(s) - psychiatry , mental health , focus (optics) , precision medicine , medicine , genetic testing , psychology , physics , pathology , optics
So much of finding the right psychiatric medication is trial and error, leading to the push for “precision medicine” by the National Institute of Mental Health (see CPU , March 2015). Under this policy, the NIMH is moving away from a diagnosis‐based treatment system to a symptom‐based one, with a focus on genomics.