Neural drug delivery systems

Hey kiddo, do you know what drugs are? They are special medicines that help us when we are sick. But did you know that scientists are always trying to find newer and better ways to give these drugs to make them work even better?

One idea is to use something called neural drug delivery systems. This is where tiny microscopic devices or particles carrying the drugs are delivered directly to specific parts of our brain and nervous system that need it the most.

Our brain controls everything in our body like our thoughts, feelings, movements, and senses. But sometimes, there are diseases or disorders that affect our brains or nervous system like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, or epilepsy. Neural drug delivery systems can help in treating these kinds of illnesses by directly sending the medicine to the affected area.

Now, you might be wondering, how are these tiny robots or particles able to get to our brain? Well, scientists use various techniques like attaching drugs to tiny nanoparticles, nanocapsules, or even tiny robots that travel through our blood vessels to reach the targeted part of our brain.

Once these delivery systems reach the targeted part, they release the medicine, and then it gets absorbed by our body to start working on the illness.

This way of delivering drugs has many advantages. It's more precise compared to traditional methods like pills, injections, or liquid drugs that travel through the body and may sometimes affect other parts that don't need the medicine. It also reduces the amount of medicine needed and can minimize harmful side effects.

So, neural drug delivery systems are a way of helping us get better by sending tiny devices or particles to specific parts of our brain to deliver the medicine we need to fight diseases effectively.