Mental illness is biologically determined. Do you ever wonder why or how people get mental illness? According to Dr. Bruce Cuthbert found genes that were in common across these autism, ADHD, bipolar disorder, major depression and schizophrenia. Mental illness is biologically determined. Researchers had turned up evidence of shared genetic risk factors for pairs of disorders, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
“Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and unipolar depression. It examined the genetics in all of these disorder in one BIG sample, as though they were simply a single illness. And they found genes that were in common across all of these disorders.” Dr. Cuthbert had said. Dr. Cuthbert also said “ Because rather than looking at a treatment that’s specific to schizophrenia, we now can look for a problem that may be common across many people. Mental illness is more common in people whose blood relatives also have a mental illness.
Certain genes may increase your risk of developing a mental illness your risk of developing a mental illness, and your life situation may trigger it; said Mayo clinic. If you have some type of mental illness, like schizophrenia you may be
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In studies of identical twins, scientist report that if one identical twin has bipolar disorder, the other twin has a greater chance of developing bipolar disorder disorder disorder than another sibling in the family.” Is this the information that we have been looking for to prove that mental disorders share some of the same genes? Maybe the answer lies in the brain; the brain chemical called “serotonin” is connected to many body functions such as sleep, wakefulness, eating, sexual activity, learning, and memory. Researchers believe that abnormal functioning of the brain circuits that “serotonin” as a chemical messenger contribute to mood disorders, such as bipolar and