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PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCES
Volume 77, Issue 6, Pages 308-314Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/pcn.13545
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disease modeling; genetic variant; iPS cell; mental disorders; neural organoid
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Mental disorders have a significant impact on patients' quality of life and cause serious social burdens. Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology has emerged as a novel tool for research on mental disorders, addressing the limitations of other research approaches. This review discusses the history, current trends, potential, and future of iPSC technology in the field of mental disorders.
Mental disorders are considered as one of the major healthcare issues worldwide owing to their significant impact on the quality of life of patients, causing serious social burdens. However, it is hard to examine the living brain-a source of psychiatric symptoms-at the cellular, subcellular, and molecular levels, which poses difficulty in determining the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of mental disorders. Recently, induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology has been used as a novel tool for research on mental disorders. We believe that the iPSC-based studies will address the limitations of other research approaches, such as human genome, postmortem brain study, brain imaging, and animal model analysis. Notably, studies using integrated iPSC technology with genetic information have provided significant novel findings to date. This review aimed to discuss the history, current trends, potential, and future of iPSC technology in the field of mental disorders. Although iPSC technology has several limitations, this technology can be used in combination with the other approaches to facilitate studies on mental disorders.
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