DISC1 and bipolar disorder: These behavioural findings also support the use of the 129SvEv strain as a genetic model of psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia-like disorders, linked to the Disc1 gene [33,90–92], and could be employed to address the distribution and regulation of the molecular cascades responsible for such a unique phenotype of this strain from those with different genetic backgrounds.