Hope Grows for Potential Bipolar Disorder Biomarker

A potential biomarker for bipolar disorder may have been found, Tomas Hajek, M.D., Ph.D., an associate professor of psychiatry at Dalhousie University in Canada, and his colleagues reported recently in Biological Psychiatry. The study included 154 subjects—19 adolescents or young adults with bipolar disorder, 50 nonaffected relatives of people with bipolar disorder, 36 affected relatives of people with bipolar disorder, and 49 healthy control subjects. Using MRI imaging, the scientists found that subjects with bipolar disorder as well as their affected and unaffected relatives had a significantly larger inferior frontal gyrus in the brain...

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Published By: Psychiatric News - Monday, 17 September