In this episode of Off Label, we unpack a paper by Dr. Steve Rondeau that tackles one of the biggest challenges in mental health care: diagnostic heterogeneity. When two patients present with the same symptoms but have entirely different underlying conditions, misdiagnosis becomes almost inevitable—and treatment suffers. The paper explains how overlapping symptoms, frequent comorbidities, and decades of generalized diagnostic frameworks contribute to high error rates and growing patient distr...
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In this episode of Off Label, we unpack a paper by Dr. Steve Rondeau that tackles one of the biggest challenges in mental health care: diagnostic heterogeneity. When two patients present with the same symptoms but have entirely different underlying conditions, misdiagnosis becomes almost inevitable—and treatment suffers. The paper explains how overlapping symptoms, frequent comorbidities, and decades of generalized diagnostic frameworks contribute to high error rates and growing patient distr...
Different Brains, Different Needs: Personalizing Mental Health Care
Off-Label
27 minutes
4 months ago
Different Brains, Different Needs: Personalizing Mental Health Care
Description: What if your diagnosis said more about the system than about you? In this episode of Off Label: Data, Diagnostics, and the Future of Mental Health, Dr. Steve Rondeau challenges the static, category-based frameworks that still dominate psychiatric diagnosis. Instead, we explore the concept of mental health heterogeneity—the truth that no two people with the same label experience it the same way—and why personalized psychiatry offers a more effective and human-centered path forward...
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In this episode of Off Label, we unpack a paper by Dr. Steve Rondeau that tackles one of the biggest challenges in mental health care: diagnostic heterogeneity. When two patients present with the same symptoms but have entirely different underlying conditions, misdiagnosis becomes almost inevitable—and treatment suffers. The paper explains how overlapping symptoms, frequent comorbidities, and decades of generalized diagnostic frameworks contribute to high error rates and growing patient distr...
