Issue

A.T.F. Beekman, T. van Amelsvoort, H.L. Van, K.R. Goethals

Editorial

Afscheid Noela Sanderson

R.C. van der Mast, P.N. van Harten, J. Spijker, H.L. Van

Personalised medicine in rheumatology

R.F. van Vollenhoven, M. L’ami, G. Wolbink

background An important goal in medicine is to provide patients with individualised and personalised treatment. Personalised medicine is making an important contribution.
aim To summarise developments in the field of personalised medicine in rhe...

Psychiatric diagnosis: personalised by definition

M.W. Hengeveld, A.T.F. Beekman

background Personalised psychiatry requires a psychiatric diagnosis which aims to determine the causes of the mental disorder and the context within which it has developed, including the factors of most importance for the choice of an appropriate...

Personalised diagnosis and treatment of depression

A.T.F. Beekman, J. Spijker

background It is often said that a patient with depression can derive considerable benefit from personalised diagnostics and treatment.
aim To find out whether we have enough data to demonstrate that personalised diagnostics and personalise...

Personalised medicine for psychosis

W. Veling, I.E.C. Sommer, R. Bruggeman, L. de Haan

background Personalised medicine (pm) means treatment that specifically targets the needs of individual patients on the basis of genetic, biomarker, phenotypic or psychosocial characteristics.
aim To update our knowledge about the current use...

Personalised treatment of disorders in the use of alcohol and nicotine

G. Dom, W. van den Brink, A. Schellekens

background There is an increasing interest in personalised treatment based on the individual characteristics of the patient in the field of addiction care.
aim To summarise the present state of staging and profiling possibilities within addicti...

Is a personalised approach of the borderline personality disorder useful?

A. Noteboom, L.M. Dil, H.L. Van

background Borderline personality disorder (bpd) seems to have a progressive course, starting during adolescence. It’s prevalence peaks during early adulthood, after which it declines. The symptom profile changes during its course. Consequently, ...

Personalised medicine in forensic psychiatry: an example for other domains of psychiatry?

K.R. Goethals

background Personalised medicine promises to provide us with a diagnostic predictive system of stratification that is based on a wide variety of tests; these can include biological, cognitive, demographic, psychopathological tests and other clear...

Personalised prevention of mental disorder

P. Cuijpers, A.T.F. Beekman

background The prevention of mental disorders is feasible, but a broader implementation requires a more precise application of available interventions to target populations.
aim A literature review of the different approaches where preventive...

Transdiagnostic psychiatry: work in progress

T.A.M.J. van Amelsvoort, M.C. Klaassen, O.A. van den Heuvel

background There is an increasing awareness that the current approach to clinical thought and work in psychiatry in relation to psychiatric diagnosis, treatment and research has its limitations. This necessitates a process to reform both the clin...

Personalised psychiatry: no substitute for personal care

J. van Os

background Personalised psychiatry is the promise that biological stratification and analysis of ‘big’ data will enable clinical prediction.
aim To analyse promises and problems regarding personalised medicine in the psychiatry.
method An...

Data science in psychiatry

F.E. Scheepers, V. Menger, K. Hagoort

background The information society is digitalising at a fast pace. New technology enables the collection of real life and real time information from sources that were inaccessible before. This creates an inordinate amount of dynamic data and, con...

Personalised medicine: from a scientific perspective