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In this Review, Hodes and Kropp discuss the lessons we have learned from using sex as a biological variable in stress and mood disorder research and how we should shape our questions to avoid sex-based disparities in mental health care.
This Review discusses the adverse consequences of phenotypic imprecision for discovering reproducible biological correlates of psychopathology and provides recommendations for precision phenotyping that will help to overcome these challenges.
This Review summarizes the advances in personalized medicine and drug discovery in psychiatry and suggests a framework for the development of clinically relevant biological subtypes in the field.