Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel sees promise in a new strain of genetics and psychotherapy, if not new drugs, for psychiatric illnesses, in a transcript we posted on the Dana site this week of a conversation during the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting this year.
If we get markers for most psychiatric illnesses, and we can see to what degree drugs or psychotherapy affect them, we now will have much more effective ways of seeing how they combine. And also in psychotherapy, what type of psychotherapy is helpful for a particular indication and under what circumstances a female therapist is better than a male therapist, one [therapy] orientation is better than another. We’ll be able to make a science out of psychotherapy, which I predict is going to happen over the next 20 to 40 years.
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