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ReviewMolecular psychiatry2025

Precision psychiatry roadmap: towards a biology-informed framework for mental disorders.

Martien J H Kas, Brenda W J H Penninx, Gitte M Knudsen, Bruce Cuthbert, Peter Falkai, Gary S Sachs, Kerry J Ressler, Ewa Bałkowiec-Iskra, Florence Butlen-Ducuing, Marion Leboyer and 3 more

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Review in Molecular psychiatry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
40citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  6. Big data and psychiatry: advances, constraints and future directions.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2026
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  7. Is bigger better?World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2026
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  16. Trials, trips, and tribulations: pathways for implementing psychedelic therapy in Ireland.The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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  20. Precision medicine in mental health: applications, challenges, and recommendations.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Martien J H KasGroningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands. m.j.h.kas@rug.nl.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4471-8618
Brenda W J H PenninxDepartment of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7779-9672
Gitte M KnudsenNeurobiology Research Unit, Copenhagen University Hospital (Rigshospitalet) and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Bruce CuthbertRetired, Research Domain Criteria Unit, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Bethesda, MD, USA.
Peter FalkaiDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0284-2290
Gary S SachsSignant Health and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Kerry J ResslerMcLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5158-1103
Ewa Bałkowiec-IskraEuropean Medicines Agency's Central Nervous System Working Party (CNSWP), Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP), Scientific Advice Working Party (SAWP), Emergency Task Force (ETF), Patients' and Consumers' Working Party (PCWP), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8882-9769
Florence Butlen-DucuingOffice for Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders, European Medicines Agency, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8305-2089
Marion LeboyerUniversity Paris Est Créteil, INSERM U955, Translational Neuropsychiatry, PEPR PROPSY, Department of Addictology and Psychiatry, Henri Mondor University Hospital (AP-HP), Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5473-3697
Hugh MarstonNeuroscience & Mental Health, Discovery Research, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH, Biberach, Germany.
Johan LuthmanR&D, H. Lundbeck A/S, Valby, Denmark.
Valentina MantuaU.S. Food and Drug Administration, Centre for Drug Evaluation and Research, Silver Spring, MD, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The current classification systems for mental disorders provide a uniform symptom-based language to describe and diagnose mental disorders. Clinicians use these classifications to communicate with their patients and colleagues, to treat patients, and when applicable, to request reimbursement from payers. In clinical research and drug development, diagnostic categories are used as enrollment criteria for clinical trials and to inform prescribing information for the appropriate use of therapeutic interventions. However, like other neuropsychiatric diseases, mental disorders arise from the biology of the brain and its bidirectional interaction with the environment. Current classification systems do not reflect this knowledge. With scientific progress in neuroscience, the time has come for global stakeholders to align research efforts to work toward integrating symptomatic, biological, and behavioral information into the definition of mental disorders to advance the development of effective treatments. The European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP), following the 2024 New Frontiers Meeting, is coordinating a global initiative to design and implement a Precision Psychiatry Roadmap. By mobilizing resources and harmonizing translational methodologies and datasets, the aim is to discuss, design, and implement an iterative framework that incorporates biology-informed evidence into symptom-based syndromes, allowing for more discovery and implementation of mechanism-based effective treatments for mental disorders.

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Mental DisordersPrecision MedicinePsychiatryBrainHumans

Identifiers

PMID40533548
PMCPMC12240818

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