Roundtable Discussion: From Diagnoses to Biology: Rethinking How We Define Psychiatric Disease

1:00 pm - Wednesday 16th September 2026

  • Are current psychiatric diagnoses helping or hindering therapeutic innovation?
  • How can circuit biology, cognition and behaviour provide a more biologically grounded framework?
  • What lessons have we learned from recent precision psychiatry efforts?
  • How should clinical development evolve as patient populations become increasingly stratified?
  • What evidence will be needed to move the field beyond symptom-based diagnosis?

Speakers:

Professor
Virginia Tech