What is it about?
Whether we’ll be likely to develop a mental disorder in the autism spectrum (autism, Asperger syndrome, ADHD) or the psychosis one (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression) is determined by a genetic conflict between our parents’ selfish interests. Yet it's mitochondria that enable this battle, and unhealthy ones can tip the scales.
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Perspectives
To best understand a disease, one can zoom in on its details but also zoom out to see how it relates to other ones. The latter is what we have done here, presenting a broad perspective on how mental disorders are tied to the evolutionary strategies of the two sexes and to growth, metabolism, and mitochondria.
Dr Paola Bressan
Universita degli Studi di Padova
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This page is a summary of: Mental Health, Mitochondria, and the Battle of the Sexes, Biomedicines, January 2021, MDPI AG,
DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines9020116.
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