Recently, I heard an excerpt from a broadcast about manic depressive psychosis on the radio and found out that this disease can be hereditary and that it is called in a certain way in offspring … and this is where I did not hear. Would it be possible to approximate this disease that occurs in the person inheriting it and its symptoms?
Manic-depressive psychosis is an ancient term. We currently use the term "bipolar disorder". This disease is not inherited so directly, but a tendency to it - that is, many descendants will not get sick in any way, approx. 80%. I do not know what term was used in the broadcast to describe such an inherited disease, I do not know the term. Perhaps it has been said that this is an "endogenous" disease, that is, its cause is independent of situational or environmental factors. This is also an old term and indicates not so much genetic succession as the lack of external causes. Inheritance is polygenic here, depending on the mosaic of various genes. It is difficult to inherit the same mosaic because the parents' genes are mixed up. If an offspring inherits this tendency to become ill, it does not mean that the disease will (or may not) develop, or that it will follow a similar course. It may have significantly different symptoms and course. Regards!
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Tomasz JaroszewskiSecond degree psychiatrist
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