“…Bipolar disorder (BD) is defined as a chronic mood disorder that may severely disrupt an individual's academic, professional, family, and social functioning (1). In general, BD tends to have an onset towards the end of adolescence and the beginning of early adulthood, affecting 0.6-2.4% of the general population (2) and 1.2% of children and adolescents (3,4). Although BD is known as a disorder with a strong genetic predisposition, no biological marker for the diagnosis has yet been identified; the diagnosis mostly relies on clinical methods.…”