Precision medicine and suicide: an opportunity for digital health
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Purpose of review A better understanding of suicide phenomena is needed, and precision medicine is a promising approach toward this aim. In this manuscript, we review recent advances in the field, with particular focus on the role of digital health.Recent findings Technological advances such as smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment and passive collection of information from sensors provide a detailed description of suicidal behavior and thoughts. Further, we review more traditional approaches in the field of genetics. We first highlight the need for precision medicine in suicidology. Then, in light of recent and promising research, we examine the role of smartphone-based information collection using explicit (active) and implicit (passive) means to construct a digital phenotype, which should be integrated with genetic and epigenetic data to develop tailored therapeutic and preventive approaches for suicide.
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Digital phenotyping of suicidal ideators based on EMA data has been discussed by many.
“The prospect of digital phenotyping of suicidal ideators (such as identifying those with high/low variability) based on EMA data has been discussed by many [see e.g., (121, 122)]”
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- Authors
- Barrigon, M. L., Courtet, P., Oquendo, M., & Baca-García, E.
- Affiliations
- Inserm (FR)
- ORCID
- Courtet, Philippe
- Venue
- Current Psychiatry Reports
- Published
- 2019-11-28
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 131-131
- ISSN
- 1523-3812 (ISSN-L)
- 1535-1645
- OpenAlex
- W2991012369
- Cited by
- 36
- References
- 57
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 0.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Current Psychiatry Reports (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-16-IDEX-0006)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Keywords
- suicide, precision medicine, digital health, suicidology, smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment, passive sensing, digital phenotypes, epigenetics, suicide prevention, tailored treatment
- MeSH terms
- Smartphone, Ecological Momentary Assessment, Suicide Prevention, Genetics, Medical, Humans, Suicide, Precision Medicine, Suicidal Ideation
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