The Evolution of Precision Psychiatry | Dr. Andrew Gerber | TEDxBerkshires

Precision Psychiatry. How is our understanding of psychiatry evolving and what does it mean for the future of psychiatric treatment? What technologies are helping psychiatry evolve to understand the root causes behind the symptoms we see?
Andrew J. Gerber is medical director and CEO of the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, associate clinical professor at the Child Study Center at Yale University, adjunct associate professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences in the College of Natural Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and associate clinical professor in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center. He is the former co-director of the Sackler Parent-Infant Program at Columbia University, former director of the MRI Research Program at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, and former director of research at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at