Are the Drug Therapies for Mental Disorders Getting Better? (1:01)
Drug therapy for mental illness has come a long way, says HealthMaker Roy Boorady, MD, child and adolescent psychiatrist. In this video he explains that even though we're in a good place now with medication, we are constantly making improvements.
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In terms of drug therapies, we're always sort of improving on the therapies that we have now. So what we have now does not seem to be the end of the line or the sort of the final solutions, so we take what we have now and we always are constantly trying to improve on it, the more knowledge and information we have about the brain.
So even though I think what we have now is very good and this is probably the best time to have depression or anxiety. I'm glad you're coming to me now rather than ten years ago but I do feel, I do see that the field is improving and it seems like every few years we're going to have improvement on the current medications and to sort of better probably more targeted and better treatments.
Roy Boorady, MD, is a leading child psychiatrist at Child Mind Institute. Prior to this he was the clinical director of the NYU Child Study Center's Psychopharmacology Service. Boorady is an advocate for individualized treatment plans.
