Precision Psychiatry
The need for precision medicine in psychiatry is propelled by the ever-increasing urgency to help our patients with the enormous social, emotional, medical, and financial burden of mental illness by closing the gap between research and clinical practice. The mission ofthe Stavros Niarcos Foundation (SNF) Center for Precision Psychiatry & Mental Health is to create a new way to connect each patient with the specific therapeutic treatments they need by using advances in science, technology, and highly personalized medical information, such as individual variability in genes and environment, to diagnose and treat significant mental health conditions.
Precision medicine is personalized medicine used to predict with more accuracy which strategies and treatments will work best for each patient. The SNF's understanding of the underlying neurobiological mechanisms that cause psychiatric disorders will change the nature of new research into treatments. And their strengths in translational neuroscience will enable them to develop the foundations for treatments that can target the specific mechanisms to alter the path of the disease and reduce suffering for millions around the world.
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Center for Precision Psychiatry & Mental Health at Columbia University was established through a $75 million grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, an international philanthropic organization, as part of SNF's Global Health Initiative (GHI) and we are grateful for their support of this important mission.
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