The overall heritability of the bipolar spectrum has been put at 0.71.

Learn about the bipolar spectrum, what it means, and how bipolar is categorized.

Most recently, researchers have turned their attention to the mild end of the bipolar spectrum, and sliced it into many permutations.

As with most of the disorders in the bipolar spectrum, it is the depressive phase that leads most sufferers to get help.

It is most often associated with the bipolar spectrum.

The emergence of the bipolar spectrum: validation along clinical-epidemiologic and familial-genetic lines.

This has caused speculation amongst doctors that mania and depression are two independent axes in a bipolar spectrum, rather than opposites.

Under this concept, such people's conditions are in the "bipolar spectrum," without qualifying as true bipolar disorder.

Bipolar spectrum advocates also assert that people with many other mental conditions are in the bipolar spectrum.

Mental or behavioral conditions that have been suggested to be part of the bipolar spectrum include: