It is hoped that the approach developed in this study will be rapidly incorporated
in standard clinical practice to maximise the diagnosis of rare genetic disorders.
«This could be a game - changer in epilepsy diagnosis and could make precision medicine part
of standard clinical practice,» says lead author Anne T. Berg, PhD, from Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.
Clinicians with specialised training in addiction, and experience of treating dually (and multiply) diagnosed people are familiar with
the standard clinical practice of first conducting psychological interventions before beginning pharmacological treatment.