Researchers create a roadmap of Bipolar Disorder and how it affects the brain

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      This article discussed the new discovery researchers have found with parts of brain functioning and bipolar disorder. As a psychology major, I find this article extremely important for the future of psychology. The article explains how researchers have found in MRI scans that people with bipolar disorder tend to have grey matter reductions in the frontal lobe regions that are involved in self-control, while sensory and visual areas are normal. They have also discovered through MRIs  that Lithium has been associated with less grey matter thinning in patients with Bipolar Disorder.
     This finding is the first real connection that has been found between Bipolar Disorder and the brain as the article stated, can provide a lot of insight when creating medicine. This discovery leading them to create better medicine is extremely important and beneficial. Bipolar Disorder is the number one psychiatric disorder associated with suicide, partly because the medicine to treat it has terrible side affects and makes people lifeless. Finding a new medicine that directly impacts the parts of the brain that Bipolar Disorder is affecting can be a major milestone accomplished in psychology

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  1. UnknownMay 3, 2017 at 3:40 AM

    Bipolar Disorder has always been something that interests me being that a few people in my extended family are diagnosed with this disorder. I found this article to be very helpful and I am glad that you were able to find and share it. I am also a psychology major and I absolutely agree that this is huge for the field and in improving treatment for the people who struggle with Bipolar Disorder. I am interested to find out any further advances they are able to make with this.

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