Periodic Reporting for period 1 - ClinGen-PsychTx (Identifying Clinical, Demographic, and Genomic Risk Factors for Treatment-Resistant Psychiatric Disorders)
Période du rapport: 2018-04-01 au 2020-03-31
An example of a potential finding might be that people with schizophrenia who are female, of an older age, or have a certain genetic marker, may be more likely to not respond to treatment. This information can be used to develop tests that will help identify people at risk of not responding to a treatment before it is ever given, in order to tailor more aggressive (or different) treatment plans.
Successful completion of this proposal will highly impact our understanding of treatments in mental health, and could reduce health care costs and most importantly, reduce the suffering in individuals with these disorders. There are millions of Europeans with a mental health disorder and a high proportion of them will not respond to treatment. If we can figure out earlier that someone will not respond to a treatment, we can give them a better or different treatment sooner.