{"id":90457,"date":"2019-05-08T12:44:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T19:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/new-approach-to-drug-discovery-could-lead-to-personalized-treatment-of-neuropsychiatric-disorders"},"modified":"2019-05-08T12:44:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T19:44:51","slug":"new-approach-to-drug-discovery-could-lead-to-personalized-treatment-of-neuropsychiatric-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/new-approach-to-drug-discovery-could-lead-to-personalized-treatment-of-neuropsychiatric-disorders","title":{"rendered":"New approach to drug discovery could lead to personalized treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-approach-to-drug-discovery-could-lead-to-personalized-treatment-of-neuropsychiatric-disorders.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed a method that could drastically accelerate the search for new drugs to treat mental health disorders such as schizophrenia.<\/p>\n<p>Mental health disorders are the leading cause of disability worldwide, accounting for 31% of total years lived with disability. While our understanding of the biology behind these disorders has increased, no new neuropsychiatric drugs with improved <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/treatment+effects\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">treatment effects<\/a> have been developed in the last few decades, and most existing treatments were found through luck.<\/p>\n<p>This is mainly because doctors can\u2019t take brain tissue samples from <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/patients\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">patients<\/a> in the same way that they are able to do a biopsy on a cancer tumour elsewhere in the body for example, so it\u2019s difficult for researchers to understand exactly what to target when designing new neuropsychiatric drugs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019-05-approach-drug-discovery-personalized-treatment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed a method that could drastically accelerate the search for new drugs to treat mental health disorders such as schizophrenia. Mental health disorders are the leading cause of disability worldwide, accounting for 31% of total years lived with disability. While our understanding of the biology behind these disorders has increased, no new neuropsychiatric [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}