Genetic treatments, the future of psychiatry?

According to the latest studies by brain researchers, Everything indicates that mental disorders will be able to be genetically treated in the future.

Scientists have discovered for the first time how humans - and other mammals - have evolved to have intelligence. Researchers have identified the time in history when our genes allowed us to think and reason.

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500 billion years ago We develop the ability to learn complex skills and analyze situations.

Professor Seth Grant from the University of Edinburgh, who led the research, said: «One of the great scientific problems is to explain how complex behaviors endowed with intelligence arose during evolution.«

Research also shows a direct relationship between the evolution of behavior and the origins of mental illnesses. Scientists believe that the same genes that have improved our mental capacity are also responsible for a number of brain disorders.

“This groundbreaking work has implications for how we understand the onset of psychiatric disorders and will offer new ways to develop new treatments »said John Williams, Director of Neuroscience and Mental Health at the Wellcome Trust Foundation.

The study shows that the origin of intelligence in humans was the result of an increase in the number of genes in the brain and that mental illness is the result of an "ancient genetic accident."

Researchers have found that higher mental functions in humans and mice are controlled by the same genes. The study also showed that When these genes are mutated or damaged, higher mental functions are impaired.

"Now we will be able to apply genetics to help patients fight these mental illnesses »said Dr Tim Bussey of the University of Cambridge, who was also involved in the study.

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  1.   David Pacheco Matallanos said

    This rabble of psychiatrists always looking for excuses to sell us the cure for illnesses that are invented. I sent them to the mine! Scammers !!