It's your mother's fault

"Recent studies in animals and humans suggest that abnormalities of mitrochondria may be involved in bipolar depression."

They apparently just finished a study seeing whether this was true or not. I can't wait for the details to come out. It begs the question: are people with mothers who are mentally ill more likely to inherit the disorder?

Mitochondria are also what scientists study to trace genetics back generations. Things pass through the mother: mitochondria come from the mother. So if your mom is mentally ill, it would make sense that you are more likely to get the disease than if it runs in your dad's family. Right? Hopefully they're doing a study on that now.