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05 Feb, 2025
Now, a group of scientists at Stanford Medicine are trying to do the same for psychiatry. In January, the team announced a new framework for the future study of psychiatric disorders by mapping certain brain cell types to conditions such as bipolar disorder, depression, and schizophrenia.
Their paper, appearing in Nature Neuroscience, argues for the establishment of a new “periodic table” of brain cell types. And just like its chemical predecessor, this psychiatric iteration assimilates genetic and cellular data to lift the veil on previously unidentified brain cell types that contribute to psychiatric disorders.
A Better Understanding of Psychiatric Disorders