synergy

Imagine

What would it be like to have a blood test for bipolar disorder? No more guessing games, hoping that the psychiatrist is right this time, and you aren't running down another medication maze for weeks before realizing that you don't have disorder x and maybe you just might have disorder y.

Being able to clearly identify that there is something physiologically different about you and it isn't just "in your head." Would that test be able to take away some of the stigma that bipolar patients suffer from? Be able to prove that you aren't "faking it" or being told to "get over it."

The idea of proof, something to wave under the noses of the doubters seems to me as if it would be boon to those individuals.

Moodswing writes and provides links to an initial study that looks at the accuracy of a blood test for bipolar. The first steps are being taken.

posted by synergy @ 2:58 PM