Bipolar type one disorder is an extraordinarily genetically determined psychiatric disorder with concordance rates in identical twins raised apart exceeding 70%.

“bipolar type one disorder extraordinarily genetically determined and and what is it well and sorry just to be clear carl does that mean that bipolar stems from bipolar or it just clusters with other psychiatric illness so in other words schizophrenia or significant depression would also be genetic precursors to it what it means in this case is that it's if you look at monozygotic twins especially those that are are raised apart that's where the most uh you know pure information comes from you can look at the concordance of of uh mania or bipolar disorder appearing in each of these twins and how high is it identical twins uh it's more than fifty percent uh for bipolar type one actually in fact verging above uh seventy percent”

“bipolar type one disorder extraordinarily genetically determined and and what is it well i'm sorry just to be clear carl does that mean that bipolar stems from bipolar or it just clusters with other psychiatric illness so in other words uh schizophrenia or uh significant depression would also be genetic precursors to it what it means in this case is that it's uh if you look at monozygotic twins especially those that are are raised apart that's where the most uh you know pure information comes from you can look at the concordance of of uh mania or bipolar disorder appearing in each of these twins and how high is identical twins uh it's more than fifty percent uh for bipolar type one actually in fact verging above uh seventy percent”