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Neurobiological basis of bipolar disorder: Mitochondrial dysfunction hypothesis and beyond
10 Nov 2016
Abstract excerpt
Bipolar disorder is one of two major psychotic disorders together with schizophrenia and causes severe psychosocial disturbance. Lack of adequate animal models hampers development of new mood stabilizers. We proposed a mitochondrial dysfunction hypothesis and have been studying the neurobiology of bipolar disorder based on this hypothesis. We showed that deletions of mitochondrial DNA (ΔmtDNA) play a...
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