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Biomarkers in Psychiatry: Concept, Definition, Types and Relevance to the Clinical Reality

María S. García‐Gutiérrez, Francisco Navarrete, F. Sala, Ani Gasparyan, Amaya Austrich-Olivares, Jorge Manzanares

Frontiers in Psychiatry · 2020

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Summary

During the last years, an extraordinary effort has been made to identify biomarkers as potential tools for improving prevention, diagnosis, drug response and drug development in psychiatric disorders. Contrary to other diseases, mental illnesses are classified by diagnostic categories with a broad variety list of symptoms. Consequently, patients diagnosed from the same psychiatric illness present a great heterogeneity in their clinical presentation. This fact together with the incomplete knowledge of the neurochemical alterations underlying mental disorders, contribute to the limited efficacy of current pharmacological options. In this respect, the identification of biomarkers in psychiatry is becoming essential to facilitate diagnosis through the developing of markers that allow to strati

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Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00432
Catalogue ID
SNmohbb0r7-wv15si
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