Personalized medicine in psychiatric disorders: prevention and bioethical questions.

Quattrocchi A1, Del Fante Z1, Di Fazio N1, Romano S1, Volonnino G1, Fazio V1, Santoro P1, De Gennaro U1.

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1: Department of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic and Orthopaedic Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

Abstract

Personalized medicine is an emerging approach to medicine that applies scientific knowledge to predict individual susceptibility to certain pathologies and to identify their response to pharmacological treatments. The aim of the study is to analyze the ethical implications of the use of personalized medicine in the prevention of psychiatric disorders, through the study of specific genetic variations and epigenetic modifications. However, the use of technologies aimed at studying the human genome, in order to prevent these pathologies, cause many bioethical questions.