Charlie Rose Neurological Disorders

This week’s Charlie Rose’s video dealt with neurological disorders and can be seen as a continuation from the previous video on psychiatric disorders. Charlies wanted to discuss neurological disorders and how they differ from psychiatric disorders. To differential between psychiatric neurological disorder the program states that psychiatric disorders deals with enhancements of our everyday lives whereas neurological disorders are fragmentation of symptoms and the appearance of behaviors that we don’t normally see otherwise. This an interesting way to view the two types of diseases and I thought it made it more easy to understand. Another differentiation between the two as indicated in the video is that science knows very little of the anatomically cause of psychiatric disorders where as we know more and have made major
With the understanding that dopamine in the basal ganglia play a vital role in Parkinson disease and other neurological disorders the program focused on how deep brain stimulation treatments has helped patients especially the patient that was presented in the program, Sybil. Unfortunately deep brain stimulation is not a cure and does not work for everybody and it is mainly used to treat the symptoms only and thus the program discussed other approaches such as taking a very basic research approach and use animal models to identify genes involved in the disease. Being able to identify gene-inherited forms and sporadic forms lead to the discovery that for Parkinson's disease one of the key genes that was identified is the gene alpha-synuclein. This was the first thing this gene has been brought to my attention and thus now science can focus on learning more about the gene network and hopefully make more strides towards understanding and better treating Parkinson and other neurological