Stem Cells May Help Treat Mental Illness

We in the Boston University found through rodent experiments that embryonic stem cells can help control psychological disorders, such as depression. Our team differentiated embryonic stem cells into nerve cells generating dopamine and serotonin while we devised a model of psychiatric disease for applying our technology, engrafting and evaluating approximately 80 animals, `Then, the animals behaved as if they had taken anti-depressant medication. The tests demonstrate embryonic stem cells may be used to treat mental diseases in the future, Dopamine and serotonin are well-known neurotransmitters, or the chemicals playing a key role in relaying, amplifying and modulating electrical signals between brain cells. Our searchers found low levels of the neurotransmitters are associated with several disorders, notably Parkinson’s disease, depression and anxiety, to name a few. Our next goal is to inject dopaminergic and serotonergic neurons into rodent brains separately to watch how they work in the central nervous system, the experiments are progress. But we are still at the initial stage and it will take a long time to apply them to a human being, so I need know in fact where from brain structure relation with depression? This is very important we by injection with precision stem cell in the of ward brain may can treat chronic and major depress.