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Precision medicine for psychosis: a revolution at the interface of psychiatry and neurology

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A growing understanding of the neurobiology of psychosis offers hope for an improvement in the standard of care; this includes the development of individualized, precision therapeutics. However, the path to precision psychiatry is long, and progress would be accelerated by greater collaboration with the fields of neurology and neuroscience.

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Fig. 1: Psychiatry hopes to move on from one-size-fits-all diagnostics and treatment.

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The authors thank J. McDowell and V. Shashi for their valuable input.

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  1. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

    Matcheri S. Keshavan

  2. Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA

    Matcheri S. Keshavan

  3. Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

    Brett A. Clementz

  4. Department of Neuroscience, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

    Brett A. Clementz

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Keshavan, M.S., Clementz, B.A. Precision medicine for psychosis: a revolution at the interface of psychiatry and neurology. Nat Rev Neurol 19, 193–194 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41582-023-00788-0

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