{"id":225109,"date":"2025-11-14T20:02:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T02:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/accelerating-therapies-for-brain-conditions"},"modified":"2025-11-14T20:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T02:02:25","slug":"accelerating-therapies-for-brain-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/accelerating-therapies-for-brain-conditions","title":{"rendered":"Accelerating therapies for brain conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/accelerating-therapies-for-brain-conditions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This pace of discovery might be expected given the extreme intricacy of the brain and psychiatric disorders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe brain is incredibly complex \u2014 we\u2019re talking about tens of billions of neurons with trillions of connections,\u201d says Kozo Kaibuchi, director of the International Center for Brain Science (ICBS) at Fujita Health University, near Nagoya in Japan. \u201cPsychiatric and neurological disorders are also highly diverse \u2014 often involving subtle changes on a spectrum rather than one obvious cause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, there are further obstacles that hinder progress in developing treatments for these conditions \u2014 the difficulty of imaging inside the human brain; the scarcity of human-like models; and the blood\u2013brain barrier, which prevents most drugs from entering the brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This pace of discovery might be expected given the extreme intricacy of the brain and psychiatric disorders. \u201cThe brain is incredibly complex \u2014 we\u2019re talking about tens of billions of neurons with trillions of connections,\u201d says Kozo Kaibuchi, director of the International Center for Brain Science (ICBS) at Fujita Health University, near Nagoya in Japan. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}