What Can Your Genes Tell You About Medication Tolerability or Response?
Learn how genetics can affect your response and tolerability to drugs and how pharmacogenetic testing can provide valuable insights for your prescription.
Men’s Mental Health Stigma: Why We Need to Talk About It
Learn about common stigmas of mental health for men and how being aware of genetic predispositions may play an important part in getting the help men need.
Mentally Preparing for Post-COVID Life
The psychological impact of COVID-19 can include increased stress and anxiety. Discover some tips for life after lockdown that can help you move forward.
Maternal Mental Health: What to Expect & Tools to Manage
Mental health often takes a back seat for mothers-to-be. Learn about peripartum mental health and things you can do to feel better.
Management of MDD with a Focus on PGx | Part 3: The “Other Antidepressants”
Learn how less commonly prescribed antidepressants may impact treatment decisions for major depressive disorder.
Management of MDD with a Focus on PGx | Part 2: Pharmacokinetic Considerations of First-Line Antidepressants
Learn how pharmacokinetic gene variations may impact first-line pharmacologic treatments for major depressive disorder
Management of MDD with a Focus on PGx | Part 1: Pharmacodynamic Considerations of First-Line Antidepressants
Learn how pharmacodynamic gene variations may impact first-line pharmacologic treatments for major depressive disorder.
Medicare Provides Coverage of the Genomind PGx Test
Major Advancement in Support for Mental Health Patients as Medicare Provides Coverage of the Genomind Professional PGx Express Test and the VA Extends FSS Contract to Help Soldiers and Veterans.
Navigating Antidepressants: Types, How They Work & What to Expect
Genetic testing for antidepressants can help providers find types of antidepressants that may be more likely to provide effective treatment for depression.
Bipolar Disorder Treatment and Pharmacogenetic Testing
Learn what to know about bipolar disorder treatments and how genetic testing for medications can help guide these options.
Pharmacokinetic Genes in Generalized Anxiety Disorder Treatment | Part 2: UGT2B15
Learn how mutations in these genes can affect the efficacy and safety of pharmacologic treatments for generalized anxiety disorder.
Pharmacokinetic Genes in Generalized Anxiety Disorder Treatment | Part 1: CYP450
Learn how mutations in these genes can affect the efficacy and safety of pharmacologic treatments for generalized anxiety disorder.
The Role of Pharmacodynamic Genes in Generalized Anxiety Disorder Treatment
Learn how mutations in these genes may impact pharmacologic treatments for generalized anxiety disorder.
What Is Treatment Resistant Depression?
Not all treatments for depression work on everyone. Learn about treatment-resistant depression causes, criteria and treatment options.
Psychiatrist Vs. Psychologist: What is the Difference Between Mental Health Providers?
Psychiatrists and psychologists provide specialized treatment for mental health conditions. Learn the differences and similarities between these and other clinicians.
Is Drug and Alcohol Addiction Genetic?
Find out how your genotype and family history can play a part in addiction, and how genetic testing can help with treatment.
Anxiety So Bad You Can’t Sleep? What To Do
Learn the ways anxiety affects your mental health, the relationship between mental health and sleep, and how to get better rest each night.
A Guide to Adult ADHD
Are you dealing with the symptoms of adult ADHD? Learn more about adult ADHD, appropriate treatments, and genetic testing for ADHD medications.
5 Factors That Can Cause A Decrease In Medication Effectiveness
The effectiveness of medication rests on more than just taking it correctly. Your genetics, lifestyle, and diet can impact medications more than you realize.
Sleep and Its Effects On Your Body and Mind
Not getting enough sleep can affect your body and mind. Sleeplessness and mental health are closely linked, and poor sleep can increase your risk of depression or anxiety.
Monoamine Neurotransmitters and Psychopharmacology
Most psychotropic agents target monoamine neurotransmitters. Learn how these transmitters function and why they are important to psychopharmacology.
MTHFR Gene Spotlight
Learn more about the MTHFR enzyme.
Psychotropic Drug Targeting: Receptors
Learn how drugs modify the actions of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and why mutations in these genes may affect drug response, side effect rate, or drug exposure.
Pharmacodynamic (PD) Genes Introduction
Pharmacodynamic genes are genes that can affect therapeutic response or adverse effects to medications. Learn how PD gene variation affects drug response.
The Social Media Dilemma: How Children’s Mental Health May Be Affected
Discover the positive and negative effects of social media on mental health in children of all ages and find tips on modifying social media use.
Considering Eating Disorders as Psychiatric Disorders
Eating disorders are psychiatric disorders that often coexist with other mental health difficulties such as anxiety, depression, OCD, and substance abuse.
How To Become a Mental Health Advocate
Stigma is an obstacle for many people with mental health issues. But awareness is growing. Mental health advocates have been at the heart of this change.
Can Genetic Testing for Medication Response Transform Mental Health Treatment?
Genetic testing for medication response can help personalize treatment for anxiety, depression, ADHD, schizophrenia, and PTSD. Learn how.
Pharmacokinetics (PK) and CYP450 Genes Introduction
Better understand pharmacokinetics (PK) and how the CYP450 gene can play a critical role in drug metabolism.
Introduction to Phenoconversion
Learn about phenoconversion, the process responsible for mismatch between the individual’s genotype-based prediction of drug metabolism and the true capacity to metabolize drugs due to non genetic factors.
