BDNF and bipolar disorder: There are decreased levels of BDNF mRNA and protein expression in the hippocampus of suicide victims (Banerjee et al., 2013), and significant differences in BDNF transcripts allow to distinguish schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder patients from healthy subjects, suggesting that the BDNF system is implicated in several physiological aspects of brain development (Molendijk et al., 2012; Banerjee et al., 2013; Reinhart et al., 2015).