Translational Psychiatry: Light in the Darkness
نویسندگان
1 Psychiatric Research Center, Roozbeh Psychiatric Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/jimc.v9i2.21139چکیده
Translational Psychiatry serves as the vital bridge between laboratory science and the clinician’s office. Its central mission is to convert discoveries about brain function at the molecular, cellular, or genetic level into effective, real-world treatments for mental health disorders. In essence, it is the journey from bench to bedside (1,2). Traditional psychiatry has largely depended on the observation of symptoms such as persistent sadness, anxiety, or psychosis to guide diagnosis and treatment. Translational psychiatry seeks to go further, advancing the field toward precision medicine by uncovering the biological mechanisms underlying these symptoms. Rather than asking only what a patient experiences, it asks why those experiences arise (3,4).