Stratified medicine for mental disorders
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Stratified medicine for mental disorders
There is recognition that biomedical research into the causes of mental disorders and their treatment needs to adopt new approaches to research. Novel biomedical techniques have advanced our understanding of how the brain develops and is shaped by behaviour and environment. This has led to the advent of stratified medicine, which translates advances in basic research by targeting aetiological m...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Neuropsychopharmacology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0924-977X
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2013.09.010