How Hormones Affect Mood for Women
Feeling sad or depressed? Maybe it’s not you—maybe it’s your hormones. Here’s how puberty, pregnancy, post-partum, and menopause can affect mental health.
Genomind is Advancing how Healthcare Providers Prescribe Medications Better, Faster – Expanding Beyond Mental Health
Genomind is expanding its genetic panel and introducing a new streamlined report with actionable insights for patients – the Express Report
Genomind Precision Health Platform: Literature Summary
Download a summary of the evidence supporting the genes and associated guidance on Genomind’s pharmacogenetic (PGx) test.
Pharmacogenetics: Beyond Red Light, Green Light
Register for Genomind’s upcoming clinical education webinar on the utility of PGx testing with a focus on child and adolescent psychiatry.
Using Brain Markers to Guide Novel Interventions for Mood and Cognitive Symptoms in Late-Life Depression
Dr. Faith Gunning presents on using brain markers as interventions for mood and cognitive symptoms in late-life depression.
How the COMT Gene Impacts Mental Health Treatment
What does the COMT enzyme do? COMT (catechol-O-methyltransferase) is a central enzyme that breaks down catecholamines including dopamine, norepinephrine, and epinephrine. COMT plays a vital role in regulating dopamine signaling in the prefrontal cortex where dopamine transporters are relatively sparse.1 Dopamine levels here are critical for memory, attention, judgment, and other executive functions.2,3 COMT gene […]
A Parent’s Guide to Anxiety and OCD in Children
Children can suffer from anxiety and OCD just like adults, but there are differences. Learn about anxiety and OCD in children here.
Ethnopsychopharmacology – Ethnicity and Mental Health Treatment
Ethnopsychopharmacology is the study of how ethnicity affects mental health treatment. Learn more about it to find out if it can help you.
Shore Quality Partners Teams with Genomind to Help Prevent Adverse Prescription Drug Events
Integrated precision medication management platform empowers clinicians with genetic insights intended to reduce polypharmacy errors that cost thousands of lives and billions of dollars annually.
Genomind Pharmacogenetic Population Health Tool Highlighted in American Journal of Managed Care and 22nd Population Health Colloquium
Innovative approach addresses a huge and costly public health burden.
A Beginner’s Guide to Depression & Genetic Testing for Depression Medication
In a given year 16.1 million American adults experience major depressive disorder. Learn about depression on the Genomind Blog.
7 Signs You Might Benefit from Anti-Anxiety Medication
If talk therapy and a healthy lifestyle aren’t enough to manage your anxiety, it may be time to ask about anti-anxiety medication. Watch for these signs.
4 Ways Modern Medicine Is Helping Ease the Veteran Suicide Crisis
Hope for easing the suicide crisis among U.S. military veterans has grown in recent years, thanks in part to advances in treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and other mental health conditions veterans bring home from the battlefield. That’s important news, because the number of veterans who die by suicide is sobering. According to […]
Risk Stratification Definition, and How It Affects Patients’ Care
You’re probably familiar with the lab tests and in-office screening procedures clinicians use to assess your current clinical conditions or your risk of developing certain diseases. But that’s just a starting point for the next steps in your care. Risk stratification definition Through a process called risk stratification, clinicians can systematically categorize patients’ health risk […]
How Pharmacogenomics Has Improved Patients’ Lives Through Personalized Prescriptions
Did you know that your DNA is 99.9% the same as your neighbor’s? So what makes you you? That remaining 0.1% can influence everything from your height, weight, and hair color. It can also affect how your body reacts to and breaks down certain types of medications. The emerging scientific field of pharmacogenomics combines pharmacology […]
How Your Genes Can Help Clinicians and Cardiologists Keep Your Heart Healthy
If your doctor has prescribed multiple drugs for your heart condition — maybe you recently suffered a heart attack or deal with angina — it’s likely that your prescription regimen is entirely different from that of your neighbor. That’s because you are you, thanks to your genes, and you might reap different rewards from certain […]
4 Hidden Costs of Aging and How You Can Offset Them
Think about the last time you were at the supermarket. If you felt like you were the youngest person there, it’s possible that you were. The U.S. population is aging rapidly. Currently, there are more than 54 million older adults (age 65 and up), and by 2040 that number is expected to balloon to 80 […]
Medication Adherence: Why It’s Important to Patients
When patients fill a prescription, it doesn’t always mean that they’ll follow through on the important part: taking it. Taking medication as prescribed is called medication adherence – and it’s a practice too often neglected. Turns out, about half of all patients with chronic conditions such as diabetes or high blood pressure don’t take their […]
How Food Affects Your Mood
Today, the rapidly growing field of nutritional psychiatry is finding many connections between the food we eat and the types of bacteria that live in our guts which affect how we feel
How Precision Medicine Could Revolutionize Older Adult Care
Part of the reason you’re living longer is your physical and social environment — your home, neighborhood, and community — notes the World Health Organization.1 Eating a balanced diet, exercising regularly, and refraining from smoking all contribute to a longer life span as well. Doctors prescribe medications to their patients to treat illnesses and with […]
How to Make the Most of Your Annual Medication Review
If you’re an older adult, one of the most frustrating aspects of everyday life may be staying on top of all those medications you’ve been prescribed. Making sure they’re in the right slot in your pillbox can be frustrating. In some cases, because you’ve been prescribed so many different drugs, you may wonder if you […]
Explained: What Is Genetic Testing for Mental Health Medications?
Pharmacogenetics (PGx) is a science that assesses your genes to determine how you’ll respond to specific medications. Here’s how it can help mental health.
What Is Pharmacovigilance, and Why Is It So Important to Patients’ Health?
Some of the medications you’ve been prescribed could put you at risk of experiencing an adverse drug event (ADE), or a situation where you might be harmed by a medication.1 As one example, one of your prescriptions could be interacting with another one (drug-drug interaction), or even your DNA could be interacting with one of […]
How Genetic Testing for ADHD Medication Can Personalize Treatment
There are many ADHD medications, but children don’t respond to them the same way. Here’s what genetics, especially the COMT and CYP450 genes, can tell us.
The Life-Threatening Mental Illness in Older Adults No One Is Talking About
We’ve all experienced times in our lives when we’ve felt blue. But for some, those feelings can be intense and last for several weeks or longer, signaling a medical condition known as clinical depression.1 Although clinical depression affects people of all ages, adults over the age of 65 are at an increased risk, says Patrick […]
Genomind Completes Integration with Epic with support from Parkview Physicians Group
Parkview providers now able to order Genomind testing and view results within their Epic EHR system.
11 Questions to Ask Your Doctor Before Starting or Switching to a New Medication
If you take one prescription medication, you’ll know that there’s a dose and a frequency with which you’re supposed to take it. Normally, it’s easy to keep track of one prescription, no problem. Now, multiply that by five, 10, or more. Taking multiple drugs at a time can often be unnerving. You might worry about […]
Managing Multiple Comorbidities More Easily
Over the past two years, the term “comorbidity” has been used more and more in public health conversations, thanks in large part to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the context of the pandemic, you’ve learned that people with comorbidities — or more than one pre-existing medical condition at the same time (such as diabetes and cancer) […]
Cosán and Genomind Partner to Help Prevent Adverse Prescription Drug Events for Older Adults
Integrated precision medication management platform empowers clinicians with genetic insights intended to reduce polypharmacy errors that cost thousands of lives and billions of dollars annually.
How to Avoid Medication Errors: A Guide
Thousands of Americans die as a result of medication errors on an annual basis — and in many cases, the situation could have been avoided if the proper precautions had been taken. In fact, a recent report published in Stat Pearls puts the medication error death toll at between 7,000 and 9,000 people per year.1 […]
