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Abstract
Gene therapy is a potential treatment of many incurable, lethal, and chronic diseases as psychiatric disorders. Competing with other kinds of medications, gene therapy -also known as gene alteration- has been seen as a prospective therapeutic solution as genetics contributes intensively to the origin of many disorders. The emergence of gene therapy was accompanied by controversial arguments about its unknown side effects and effectiveness that impeded the development of gene therapy. After a lot of experiments on mice and deliberate research in the world of genomics, the first genetic therapy on the human body was conducted on a young girl who was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder in 1990. The treatment went successfully, and it has spurred the implementation of gene therapy in numerous health issues. Among many diseases that can be treated using gene therapy, psychiatric disorders are the most prominent as they are profoundly affected by gene defects. Depression, Bipolar, Alzheimer’s, and OCD are examples of mental issues caused by defections in certain genes.