How Real-World Data Can Facilitate the Development of Precision Medicine Treatment in Psychiatry

Elise Koch*, Antonio F. Pardiñas, Kevin S. O'Connell, Pierluigi Selvaggi, José Camacho Collados, Aleksandar Babic, Serena E. Marshall, Erik Van der Eycken, Cecilia Angulo, Yi Lu, Patrick F. Sullivan, Anders M. Dale, Espen Molden, Danielle Posthuma, Nathan White, Alexander Schubert, Srdjan Djurovic, Hakon Heimer, Hreinn Stefánsson, Kári StefánssonThomas Werge, Ida Sønderby, Michael C. O'Donovan, James T.R. Walters, Lili Milani, Ole A. Andreassen

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Abstract

Precision medicine has the ambition to improve treatment response and clinical outcomes through patient stratification and holds great potential for the treatment of mental disorders. However, several important factors are needed to transform current practice into a precision psychiatry framework. Most important are 1) the generation of accessible large real-world training and test data including genomic data integrated from multiple sources, 2) the development and validation of advanced analytical tools for stratification and prediction, and 3) the development of clinically useful management platforms for patient monitoring that can be integrated into health care systems in real-life settings. This narrative review summarizes strategies for obtaining the key elements—well-powered samples from large biobanks integrated with electronic health records and health registry data using novel artificial intelligence algorithms—to predict outcomes in severe mental disorders and translate these models into clinical management and treatment approaches. Key elements are massive mental health data and novel artificial intelligence algorithms. For the clinical translation of these strategies, we discuss a precision medicine platform for improved management of mental disorders. We use cases to illustrate how precision medicine interventions could be brought into psychiatry to improve the clinical outcomes of mental disorders.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)543-551
Number of pages9
JournalBiological psychiatry
Volume96
Issue number7
Early online date5 Jan 2024
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2024

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Funding

This work was supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Grant No. 964874 [to OAA]). We also acknowledge support from the Research Council of Norway (Grant Nos. 296030 and 223273 [to OAA]) and grants from South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority (Grant No. 2020060 [to IS]), the Estonian Research Council (Grant No. PRG184 [to LM]), the National Institute of Mental Health (Grant No. R01 MH123724 [to PFS]), and the European Research Council (Grant No. 101042183 [to YL]). OAA reported grants from Stiftelsen Kristian Gerhard Jebsen, South-East Regional Health Authority, Research Council of Norway, and European Union's Horizon 2020 during the conduct of the study and personal fees from cortechs.ai (stock options), Lundbeck (speaker's honorarium), and Sunovion (speaker's honorarium) and Janssen (speaker's honorarium) outside of the submitted work. JTRW and MCO have received grant funding from Takeda for work unrelated to this paper and from the Medical Research Council (United Kingdom), European Union's Horizon 2020, and Akrivia Health to develop linked genomic and electronic health resources. PFS is a shareholder and scientific advisory board member for Neumora Therapeutics. All other authors report no biomedical financial interests or potential conflicts of interest. Dr. Andreassen reported grants from Stiftelsen Kristian Gerhard Jebsen, South-East Regional Health Authority, Research Council of Norway, and European Union\u2019s Horizon 2020 during the conduct of the study; personal fees from cortechs.ai (stock options), Lundbeck (speaker\u2019s honorarium), and Sunovion (speaker\u2019s honorarium) and Janssen (speaker\u2019s honorarium) outside the submitted work. Drs. Walters and O\u2019Donovan have received grant funding from Takeda for work unrelated to this paper and from the Medical research Council (UK), from European Union\u2019s Horizon 2020, and Akrivia Health to develop linked genomic and electronic health resources. Dr. Sullivan is a shareholder and SAB member for Neumora Therapeutics. All other authors report no biomedical financial interests or potential conflicts of interest. This project has received funding from the European Union\u2019s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 964874. We also acknowledge support from the Research Council of Norway (296030, 223273), grants from South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority (2020060), and the Estonian Research Council (PRG184).

FundersFunder number
Medical Research Council
Sunovion
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company
Stiftelsen Kristian Gerhard Jebsen
European Commission
European Union’s Horizon 2020, and Akrivia Health
European Union's Horizon 2020, and Akrivia Health
Horizon 2020
South East Regional Health Authority
Eesti TeadusagentuurPRG184
Norges forskningsråd296030, 223273
Helse Sør-Øst RHF2020060
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme964874
European Research Council101042183
National Institute of Mental HealthR01 MH123724

    Keywords

    • Drug treatment outcomes
    • Genomics
    • Precision medicine
    • Prediction algorithms
    • Psychiatry
    • Real-world data

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