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Precision Mental Health: Focus on Depression by Laura M. Hack; Leanne M Williams is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Precision Mental Health: Focus on Depression about?

Precision psychiatry is an emerging integrative approach that unifies the scientific foundation of the discipline and recent technological advances, directing them at narrowing the gap between discovery and clinical translation. Although depression in particular exerts a staggering toll, an understanding of which disease processes underlie the heterogeneity of depression as it is experienced by each person is lacking. While many effective treatments are available for depression, finding the right treatment for the right patient at the right time remains largely a matter of trial-and-error. Furthermore, the DSM provides a system for clinicians and researchers to communicate reliably about observed diagnostic signs and symptoms, yet a taxonomy does not exist for diagnosis and for guiding treatment choices that is based in an understanding of underlying pathophysiology. Thus, there is an urgent clinical need for an innovative approach. Functional imaging of large-scale neural circuits is one approach to developing a mechanistic taxonomy. Retrospective studies show that understanding disruptions to brain circuits markedly improves our ability to determine which patients are likely to b

Author

Laura M. Hack; Leanne M Williams

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN