GoKawiilResearchers push 'precision psychiatry' using biometric and genetic data to tailor treatment
A growing movement in psychiatry aims to replace broad, symptom-based diagnoses with data-driven subgroups that combine genetics, brain scans, speech and sleep patterns, and environmental factors like pollution or socio-economic status. Researchers are developing algorithms that compare a patient's data with thousands of others to recommend treatments more likely to work for them. Those shaping the DSM, psychiatry's main diagnostic manual, are reportedly exploring how to incorporate such environmental and social variables into future editions.