Doctors and scientists are constantly seeking new ways to cure neurological conditions that claim thousands of lives daily. Here are the latest advances in this field:
Early cures for Alzheimer’s disease
One of the medical conditions affecting more people every year is Alzheimer’s disease. This illness damages the patient’s nervous system and harms his thinking capacity and ability to create and store new memories. Unfortunately, doctors can diagnose this disease only after it has settled in. The lack of a definitive treatment may lead to dementia.
Recently, the medical field has developed a new series of experimental drugs and biomarkers to determine a person’s predisposition to Alzheimer’s. By finding the first signs of this ailment, doctors could prevent it from spreading and even cure it until it no longer damages the nervous system.
Stem cell therapy
The slow but steady degeneration of cells in the human brain leads to medical conditions that affect us at an older age. Illnesses like Parkinson’s disease, sclerosis, and dementia can severely affect a person’s judgment and mental capacity. Fortunately, doctors have a plan to treat these ailments in the future by using stem cell therapy.
Scientists have discovered that our bodies lose the ability to produce new cells in various organs. Next, the only way to regenerate this process is by transplanting new cells, which can multiply through mitosis. This treatment has already been used to treat minor forms of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. Doctors hope that more illnesses will be easy to cure shortly with the help of stem cell therapy.
More potent treatments for psychiatric disorders
Recent studies have revealed that mental illnesses may be rooted in a damaged nervous system. Most mental illnesses like schizophrenia, bipolarity, or depression can be controlled with medical drugs.
Unfortunately, they do not have a specific treatment to completely cure them.
Medical researchers believe that shortly most psychiatric disorders will be curable with the development of more potent medicine. Drugs that contain ketamine and therapies that use low-field magnetic stimulation are currently tested against common mental ailments.