Symptomatic versus disease-modifying effects of psychiatric drugs.
Seyyed Nassir GhaemiPublished in: Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica (2022)
Current psychopharmacology is limited mostly to symptomatic effects, not transformative treatments for the diseases underlying those symptoms. A change in approach is needed in psychopharmacology practice and research, focusing on long-term disease modification rather than short-term symptom improvement.