Revolution Stalled
Science Translational Medicine
10 Oct 2012
Vol 4, Issue 155
p. 155cm11
Abstract
Drug discovery is at a near standstill for treating psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, and common forms of autism. Despite high prevalence and unmet medical need, major pharmaceutical companies are deemphasizing or exiting psychiatry, thus removing significant capacity from efforts to discover new medicines. In this Commentary, I develop a view of what has gone wrong scientifically and ask what can be done to address this parlous situation.
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I thank the members and staff of the Institute of Medicine Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders for multiple probing discussions touching on many of the topics discussed here. Funding: This work was supported by the Stanley Foundation. Competing interests: I serve on the Novartis Science Board.
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