Building Models of Brain Disorders with Three-Dimensional Organoids

Overview

Journal Neuron

Publisher Cell Press

Specialty Neurology

Date 2018 Oct 26

PMID 30359604

Citations 153

Authors

Neal D Amin

Sergiu P Pasca

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Abstract

Disorders of the nervous system are challenging to study and treat due to the relative inaccessibility of functional human brain tissue for research. Stem cell-derived 3D human brain organoids have the potential to recapitulate features of the human brain with greater complexity than 2D models and are increasingly being applied to model diseases affecting the central nervous system. Here, we review the use of human brain organoids to investigate neurological and psychiatric (neuropsychiatric) disorders and how this technology may ultimately advance our biological understanding of these conditions.

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