[Hexagram]

A nano-sized discovery by Northwestern Medicine® scientists helps explain how bipolar disorder affects the brain and could one day lead to new drug therapies to treat the mental illness.

Scientists used a new super-resolution imaging method — the same method recognized with the 2014 Nobel Prize in chemistry — to peer deep into brain tissue from mice with bipolar-like behaviors. In the synapses (where communication between brain cells occurs), they discovered tiny “nanodomain” structures with concentrated levels of ANK3 — the gene most strongly associated with bipolar disorder risk. ANK3 is coding for the protein ankyrin-G.

http://http://www.psypost.org/2014/1...no-level-28907

You've got too many "http://" in it- fixed link.

Bipolar disorder discovery at the nano level - PsyPost

[Imah]

woooo hhooooooo! Excited for the future of medicine in all areas.

[Junia]

I'll read the article shortly, thanks; it looks really interesting.

Unfortunately my mind is temporarily blown by the idea of manic-depressive mice (and how to identify them - do they sleep around? Drink too much water? Spend too much time bundled under their nesting material?)

Must think about bipolar mice now...

Originally Posted by Junia

I'll read the article shortly, thanks; it looks really interesting.

Unfortunately my mind is temporarily blown by the idea of manic-depressive mice (and how to identify them - do they sleep around? Drink too much water? Spend too much time bundled under their nesting material?)

Must think about bipolar mice now...

Lol, Ya. I've seen a lot of mice, but never moody ones. That's interesting that they can find bipolar mice, unless they breed their own genetically altered mice, which would negate the findings somewhat I feel. But who knows? I know that I sure don't!

[MotherMarcus]

Originally Posted by Junia

I'll read the article shortly, thanks; it looks really interesting.

Unfortunately my mind is temporarily blown by the idea of manic-depressive mice (and how to identify them - do they sleep around? Drink too much water? Spend too much time bundled under their nesting material?)

Must think about bipolar mice now...

Do they impulse buy ?

[jacky8807]

Originally Posted by Junia

I'll read the article shortly, thanks; it looks really interesting.

Unfortunately my mind is temporarily blown by the idea of manic-depressive mice (and how to identify them - do they sleep around? Drink too much water? Spend too much time bundled under their nesting material?)

Must think about bipolar mice now...

Haha ah...ya. im having trouble with that too. Thy dont even have a real test for humans but thy figured out what mice are bipolar?

[jacky8807]

Must run on my wheel run on my wheel run run yaya

[Pikku Myy]

Now if they could just figure out how to cure it once and for all Thanks for the info.

[Skywalking]

This is great news but I am crying laughing at the bipolar mice. You guys are a trip! Maybe they get irritable and bite the scientists more often.

[venusss]

Idea bipolar mice makes it... fluff. How you observe something based on... something you sorta... made up? What is bipolar mice?

I may as well take my cats, say they are bipolar and make up my own findings.

Originally Posted by venusss

Idea bipolar mice makes it... fluff. How you observe something based on... something you sorta... made up? What is bipolar mice?

I may as well take my cats, say they are bipolar and make up my own findings.

Now, I've seen a moody cat, mice...not so much. But I'm not a mice expert.