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The largest genetic analysis of its kind to date for bipolar disorder has implicated machinery involved in the balance of sodium and calcium in brain cells.

Largest Study of Its Kind Implicates Gene Abnormalities in Bipolar Disorder

Links Sodium, Calcium Imbalances to Manic Depressive Episodes

18/Aug/2008

The largest genetic analysis of its kind to date for bipolar disorder has implicated machinery involved in the balance of sodium and calcium in brain cells.

 

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