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This Research Topic is the second volume of the 'Community Series in The Search for Biomarkers in Psychiatry'. Please see the first volume here.
The identification of biomarkers in psychiatry is becoming essential to facilitate diagnosis and select the most appropriate treatment for each patient. In contrast to other diseases, mental illnesses present the peculiarity to be classified by diagnostic categories with a broad and variable list of symptoms.
Therefore, patients diagnosed with the same psychiatric illness present a great heterogeneity in their clinical presentation. Furthermore, our knowledge about the molecular mechanisms underlying mental disorders, and consequently clinical pharmacological options, is still limited. In this respect, an extraordinary effort has been made in the last few years to identify biomarkers associated with different psychiatric conditions as potential tools for prevention, diagnosis, and prognosis in mental illness.
In this Research Topic, we welcome original and review articles regarding new advances in peripheral and central biomarkers using a variety of methods (proteomics, transcriptomics, genetics, and imaging) in clinical conditions and postmortem samples, in an attempt to identify alterations with specific traits of the disease or with the outcome of the pharmacological treatments.
In summary, the identification and validation of biomarkers in psychiatry will help to more precisely classify specific features associated with mental diagnosis and facilitate the discovery of more effective treatments.
The identification of biomarkers in psychiatry is becoming essential to facilitate diagnosis and select the most appropriate treatment for each patient. In contrast to other diseases, mental illnesses present the peculiarity to be classified by diagnostic categories with a broad and variable list of symptoms.
Therefore, patients diagnosed with the same psychiatric illness present a great heterogeneity in their clinical presentation. Furthermore, our knowledge about the molecular mechanisms underlying mental disorders, and consequently clinical pharmacological options, is still limited. In this respect, an extraordinary effort has been made in the last few years to identify biomarkers associated with different psychiatric conditions as potential tools for prevention, diagnosis, and prognosis in mental illness.
In this Research Topic, we welcome original and review articles regarding new advances in peripheral and central biomarkers using a variety of methods (proteomics, transcriptomics, genetics, and imaging) in clinical conditions and postmortem samples, in an attempt to identify alterations with specific traits of the disease or with the outcome of the pharmacological treatments.
In summary, the identification and validation of biomarkers in psychiatry will help to more precisely classify specific features associated with mental diagnosis and facilitate the discovery of more effective treatments.
Keywords: genetics, neuroimaging, brain, protein, biomarker
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