Life is a symphony

"A new study in Biological Psychiatry implicates a brain protein called Piccolo in the risk for inheriting bipolar disorder. In the orchestra of neuronal proteins, Piccolo is a member of a protein family that includes another protein called Bassoon. Piccolo is located at the endings of nerve cells, where it contributes to the ability of nerve cells to release their chemical messengers."

And the flute gives you schizophrenia. I suppose researchers ran out of abbreviations and started using common names. I would love to hear a discussion on all of this. I bet it's confusing as hell.

Anyway, finding a genetic protein involved in bipolar is a great start. Perhaps they'll be able to do testing eventually to see if people really have bipolar, and then maybe develop some drugs that target that protein. Or figure out why the ones we have work. Science is fascinating.