What is personalized psychiatry and why is it necessary?

Abstract

Personalized medicine, often interchangeably referred to as precision or individualized medicine, is an emerging approach for disease classification and treatment stratification as well as for the prevention of illness that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle. Following the personalized medicine approach, patients are separated or stratified into different groups-with medical decisions, practices, interventions, and/or products being tailored to the individual patient based on their predicted response to treatment or risk of disease. Following these underlying principles, personalized psychiatry is an emerging field within medicine with promising pr..