The Mental Health Podcast | Pharmacogenetics

Season 3 | Episode 21 Medication is never one size fits all, especially in mental health care. Even a difference of less than 0.01% in our genes can mean the same medication works beautifully for one person but causes serious side effects or no benefit at all for someone else. That’s beginning to change thanks to advances in pharmacogenetics, a field that uses a person’s genetic profile to help predict how they’ll respond to specific medications. One of Canada’s leading experts, Dr. Daniel Mueller, joins us to explain how this science is transforming treatment and improving outcomes for patients.