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It’s an established fact now that patients who do not benefit from usual psychiatric treatments or who experience unfavorable psychiatric medication side effects can respond better to treatments when psychiatric genetic testing is performed. The Los Angeles-based West Coast Life Center is a reputable name in psychiatric care and, when necessary, uses genetic testing to better personalize treatment according to the biology of their patients.

Kira Stein, MD, West Coast Life Center director, is passionate about her vocation: helping people achieve and maintain wholesome mental health and equilibrium. And truly enough, the physician’s love for psychology, psychotherapy and the judicious use of medication is apparent in every bend, turn and corner of the clinic. West Coast Life Center is one of those rare-to-find centers, which promotes dynamic psychiatric care and uses treatments that are evidence-based, progressive and integrative to improve the emotional wellbeing of patients. It is further pleased to announce an ever-expanding range of cutting-edge treatments for bringing mental wellness to people with increased accuracy.

Both adult men and women with common mental issues like mood disorders, anxiety disorders, insomnia, ADHD, personality etc. often find it hard to find a treatment facility that looks at the problem in a holistic manner rather than taking on a symptomatic treatment approach. When signs return following symptomatic care, patients as well as their families slip into further depression making the problem worse.

When patients are frustrated when a prescription causes psychiatric medication side effects or fails to work, experts commonly explain to clients, that “we all process medications differently.” Doctors often ask patients if family members are on medications, not because they are nosy, but because they know that -- based on genetics --if one medication works well for one close family member, it is more likely to work and be tolerated by another. Now, science is getting closer to learning which medications might be tolerated or more effective with psychiatric genetic testing.