ABSTRACT
The treatment of psychiatric symptoms is rapidly moving toward an era of personalized, precision medicine in which a focus on disorders is replaced by a focus on mechanisms. The promise is that assessments of mechanisms will be used to guide treatment decisions, and specialized treatments will address mechanisms specifically (Forgeard et al., 2011; Insel et al., 2010; Siegle, Ghinassi, & Thase, 2007). The neurocognitive clinic of the future may thus bear little resemblance to the treatment settings of today. For example, a clinic employing neurocognitive methods may rely more strongly on automated exercises than therapist expertise-dependent conversation, with the advantages of reduced cost in time and suffering.
