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But a new study claims the link may be well-founded after all, and written into the twisted molecules of our DNA.
In a large study published on Monday, scientists in Iceland report that genetic factors that raise the risk of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia are found more often in people in creative professions. Kari Stefansson , founder and CEO of deCODE, a genetics company based in Reykjavik, said the findings, described in the journal Nature Neuroscience , point to a common biology for some mental disorders and creativity.
The scientists drew on genetic and medical information from 86, Icelanders to find genetic variants that doubled the average risk of schizophrenia, and raised the risk of bipolar disorder by more than a third.
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The researchers went on to check their findings in large medical databases held in the Netherlands and Sweden. Stefansson believes that scores of genes increase the risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. These may alter the ways in which many people think, but in most people do nothing very harmful.
Flight from Wonder reports the findings from an empirical study of 45 Nobel laureates in science from the United States and Europe concerning the creative. Albert Rothenberg. Einstein said, “The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.”. Findings were that three cognitive creative processes described herein—janusian, homospatial, and sep-con articulation—as well as strong motivation, passion.
Creativity is a quality that has given us Mozart, Bach, Van Gogh. Stefansson concedes that his study found only a weak link between the genetic variants for mental illness and creativity.
And it is this that other scientists pick up on. The genetic factors that raise the risk of mental problems explained only about 0. For Stefansson, even a small overlap between the biology of mental illness and creativity is fascinating.
But Albert Rothenberg , professor of psychiatry at Harvard University is not convinced. He believes that there is no good evidence for a link between mental illness and creativity.
He just happened to be mentally ill as well as creative. For me, the reverse is more interesting: creative people are generally not mentally ill, but they use thought processes that are of course creative and different. Rating details.
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