Stratified medicine in psychiatry: a worrying example or new opportunity in the treatment of anxiety?

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-344797
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.34479

Owen, D. A.

; Rupprecht, Rainer ; Nutt, D. J.

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Abstract

Stratified medicine is a new term that figures highly in current MRC and NHS strategy. It has developed from the earlier terms individualised or personalised medicine and refers to the use of genetic and/or endophenotypic measures to allow better targeting of treatments. The best exemplar is HER2 positivity in breast cancer to determine the efficacy of Herceptin. Clinical trials of this ...