Is Bipolar Disease Hereditary?
It is indeed a fact that bipolar disorder tends to occur more frequently in some families. This leads scientists to believe that there are certain genes (genes contain the information about the individuals mind and body and are passed from one generation to another) that play a role in the origin of bipolar disorder. However, this does not mean that if one of the parents in a family suffers bipolar disorder, the children will automatically have the disorder too. Also, studies of identical twins (which have identical genes) show that very often one twin has bipolar disorder while the other does not. This shows that genes are not the entire story because if the disease was entirely caused by genes, the identical twins would always both suffer from bipolar disorder. A story about genes. Research also has shown that there is not a single gene that causes bipolar disorder. There are probably many different genes that act together to cause bipolar disorder, in combination with factors from t
