“Personalized Medicine in Psychiatry” a new journal from Elsevier

Dear Colleague, I’m very proud to announce that in the next months, Elsevier will start the publication the new peer reviewed scientific journal PERSONALIZED MEDICINE IN PSYCHIATRY (PMIP) with myself and Prof. Charles Nemeroff, Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Miami, serving as Co-Editors in Chief. Since in other fields…

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Personalized Psychiatry: why?

In psychiatric disorders, treatment-resistant patients represent high medical costs for management of clinical condition. Studies in literature report high percentage of patients with a treatment resistance. In schizophrenia this percentage is counted to be 20 to 50% [1], whereas in bipolar disorder the resistance occurs in 40% of patients after…

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Personalized Psychiatry: Why Science matters…

While organizing the WPA section on Personalized Psychiatry some reflections come to my mind. In our daily clinical activity we think like personalized psychiatrists, and even in more general, we think in a personalized way. We have several experiences in a field, we see, for example, many patients, we read…

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