title: The new field of 'precision psychiatry'.
abstract: Precision medicine is a new and important topic in psychiatry. Psychiatry has not yet benefited from the advanced diagnostic and therapeutic technologies that form an integral part of other clinical specialties. Thus, the vision of precision medicine as applied to psychiatry - 'precision psychiatry' - promises to be even more transformative than in other fields of medicine, which have already lessened the translational gap.
  
  
  
  Herein, we describe 'precision psychiatry' and how its several implications promise to transform the psychiatric landscape. We pay particular attention to biomarkers and to how the development of new technologies now makes their discovery possible and timely. The adoption of the term 'precision psychiatry' will help propel the field, since the current term 'precision medicine', as applied to psychiatry, is impractical and does not appropriately distinguish the field. Naming the field 'precision psychiatry' will help establish a stronger, unique identity to what promises to be the most important area in psychiatry in years to come.
  
  
  
  In summary, we provide a wide-angle lens overview of what this new field is, suggest how to propel the field forward, and provide a vision of the near future, with 'precision psychiatry' representing a paradigm shift that promises to change the landscape of how psychiatry is currently conceived.
authors.affiliation: IMPACT Strategic Research Centre, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Waurn Ponds, VIC, 3216, Australia. brisasf@gmail.com.|Barwon Health University Hospital, Geelong, Australia. brisasf@gmail.com.|Laboratory of Calcium Binding Proteins in the Central Nervous System, Department of Biochemistry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. brisasf@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Brisa S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Fernandes
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, USA.|MIRECC, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Leanne M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Johann
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Steiner
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University Paris Est Créteil, AP-HP, INSERM U955, Translational Psychiatry, Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France.
authors.forename: Marion
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Leboyer
authors.affiliation: Translational Psychiatry Research Group, Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil.
authors.forename: André F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Carvalho
authors.affiliation: IMPACT Strategic Research Centre, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Waurn Ponds, VIC, 3216, Australia.|Barwon Health University Hospital, Geelong, Australia.|Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.|Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Berk
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D057285:Precision Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D011570:Psychiatry
keywords: Big data; Biomarkers; Omics; Personalised medicine; Precision medicine; Precision psychiatry; Research domain criteria; Systems biology