Brick in the wall or one of a kind: Is personalised antipsychotic treatment possible?
Professor Robert McCutcheon, University of Oxford presents a lecture as part of the Department of Psychiatry's Seminar Series with Professor Michael Browning as Chair. This is an in-person and hybrid lecture, to join virtually, please click here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81933320763?pwd=ZnNZcWQ5M0NnSmJITWU1THNwKzBHUT09
It is common experience for practising psychiatrists that individuals with schizophrenia vary markedly in their symptomatic response to antipsychotic medication. What is not clear, however, is whether this variation reflects variability of medication-specific effects (also called “treatment effect heterogeneity”), as opposed to variability of non-specific effects such as natural symptom fluctuation or placebo response. Previous meta-analyses found no evidence of treatment effect heterogeneity, suggesting that a “one size fits all” approach may be appropriate and that efforts at developing personalised treatment strategies for schizophrenia are doomed from the outset.
Date: 28 February 2023, 9:30 (Tuesday, 7th week, Hilary 2023)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Speaker: Professor Robert McCutcheon (University of Oxford)
Organising department: Department of Psychiatry
Organiser contact email address: rania.elgarf@psych.ox.ac.uk
Host: Professor Michael Browning (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Part of: Psychiatry Seminar Series
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editors: Diana Verley, Rania Elgarf