Precision Psychiatry

Using Neuroscience Insights to Inform Personally Tailored, Measurement-Based Care

Leanne Williams, Laura Hack
APA Publishing
304 pages
ISBN: 9781615371587
October 2021

What if the principles of precision medicine already at work in fields such as cardiology, oncology, and infectious disease―where biomarkers are combined with clinical features to tailor treatments to specific patients―were applied to psychiatry? It's a bold path forward, and one that Precision Psychiatry presents exhaustively. More than three dozen experts in areas of expertise ranging from neuroimaging, neurocognition, and pharmacotherapy to behavioral science and machine learning illustrate the push to develop biomarkers and algorithms that will identify subtypes of patients that may be underserved by conventional psychiatric therapies.