“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. Researchers…found an association between the disorder and variation in two genes that make components of channels that manage the flow of the elements into and out of cells, including neurons.

“A neuron’s excitability – whether it will fire – hinges on this delicate equilibrium,”…” Full Slice

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