From run-to-failure to condition-based care: a multi-domain framework for preventive psychiatry
= 7,201), that shorter duration of untreated illness is associated with 70% greater likelihood of treatment response, and that early intervention for first-episode psychosis reduces hospitalisation by 26%. We review convergent evidence across five modifiable domains - sleep and glymphatic clearance, nutritional psychiatry, allostatic load regulation, autonomic function, and psychoneuroimmunological monitoring - selected for objective measurability, meta-analytic interventional support, identified mechanistic pathways, and population-level scalability. These domains form a mechanistically interconnected network in which deterioration in one can cascade across others. Clinical staging models, adapted from oncology, provide the graduated diagnostic architecture for condition-based care. We present a speculative multi-domain monitoring protocol with parameters, frequencies, and action thresholds calibrated to clinical stage. Among the five domains, inflammatory monitoring via C-reactive protein emerges as the most implementation-ready, with established clinical thresholds, demonstrated treatment-selection utility, and symptom-specific associations with neurovegetative features consistent with an immuno-metabolic depression subtype. Prospective multi-domain monitoring trials are identified as the most urgent research priority.
Authors
- Samir El Alaoui
Institutions
- Karolinska Institutet (SE)
- Stockholm Health Care Services (SE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Frontiers in Psychiatry
- Published
- 2026-04-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2026.1821471
- Primary Topic
- Tryptophan and brain disorders
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00