Advances in psychiatric research and treatment discussed
A discussion of the advances made in psychiatric research and treatment.
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Transcript
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RICK MYERS: We are making progress. And part of it is that the experimental tools that we have available to us now (some of those developed here at HudsonAlpha but--but really from the--from the field that we work in, in genomics) have increased in efficiency so much, even in the last couple of years and, really, in--in the time since we've been here, that we really have a pathway to--to--we can envision a pathway--towards looking at the genetics of large numbers of individual--their entire genomes, for instance--to see if we can find reasons why they might have a disorder versus someone who doesn't have the disorder.
PSYCHIATRIST: When I started my practice in 1989--compared to what psychiatry is like now--it's like thinking of running an office in 1989 compared to now. Think of it--with no fax machine, no Internet, no cell phone, no search engines, nothing. In those days, in 1989, take one disease. We had no medications for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Prozac came out in 1989, and it was followed by the rest of the serotonin reuptake inhibiting drugs, all of which are wonder drugs for obsessive-compulsive disorder. That's just an example of the enormous transformation that I've lived through during the years of my practice. And it's an example of why there needs to be continuing research into the production of new psychiatric drugs.
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RICK MYERS: We are making progress. And part of it is that the experimental tools that we have available to us now (some of those developed here at HudsonAlpha but--but really from the--from the field that we work in, in genomics) have increased in efficiency so much, even in the last couple of years and, really, in--in the time since we've been here, that we really have a pathway to--to--we can envision a pathway--towards looking at the genetics of large numbers of individual--their entire genomes, for instance--to see if we can find reasons why they might have a disorder versus someone who doesn't have the disorder.
PSYCHIATRIST: When I started my practice in 1989--compared to what psychiatry is like now--it's like thinking of running an office in 1989 compared to now. Think of it--with no fax machine, no Internet, no cell phone, no search engines, nothing. In those days, in 1989, take one disease. We had no medications for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Prozac came out in 1989, and it was followed by the rest of the serotonin reuptake inhibiting drugs, all of which are wonder drugs for obsessive-compulsive disorder. That's just an example of the enormous transformation that I've lived through during the years of my practice. And it's an example of why there needs to be continuing research into the production of new psychiatric drugs.
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