Personalized Medicine & Genetic Testing in Psychiatry
When patients are frustrated when a prescription causes psychiatric medication side effects or fails to work, experts commonly explain to clients, that “we all process medications differently.” Doctors often ask patients if family members are on medications, not because they are nosy, but because they know that -- based on genetics --if one medication works well for one close family member, it is more likely to work and be tolerated by another. Now, science is getting closer to learning which...
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