Science
Mitochondria May Hold Keys to Anxiety and Mental Health – Quanta Magazine
Research hints that the energy-generating organelles of cells may play a surprisingly pivotal role in mediating anxiety and depression.
A relationship between mitochondria and disease started to become apparent in 1975, when Douglas Wallace and his colleagues, then at Yale University, described an association between mitochondrial DNA and a genetic disorder. During the 1990s, researchers linked the effects of mutations in mitochondrial DNA to various other conditions. One in 5,000 people has an inherited mitochondrial disease of some kind, with consequences that can include diabetes, vision and hearing problems, learning difficu…
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