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Editorial
. 2025 Sep;227(3):588-589.
doi: 10.1192/bjp.2025.25. Epub 2025 Mar 10.

A better future for mental health science

Lynsey Bilsland  1 , Niall Boyce  1
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Editorial

A better future for mental health science

Lynsey Bilsland et al. Br J Psychiatry. 2025 Sep.

Abstract

This editorial suggests ways in which mental health science reform could yield more robust research and faster clinical progress. These include better animal and other models, a shift to transdiagnostic and clinically pragmatic classification systems, improved measurement, mission mapping and an entrepreneurial mindset aimed at taking advances rapidly to scale.

Keywords: Anxiety- or fear-related disorders; depressive disorders; experimental design; neuroscience; psychotic disorders/schizophrenia.

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