Nature or nurture?
Psychosis or neurosis?
Best to never know
Creatively weird
Crazy is as crazy does
Just comes naturally
Dopamine System in Highly Creative People
Similar to That Seen in Schizophrenics
“New research shows a possible explanation for the link between mental health and creativity. By studying receptors in the brain, researchers at Karolinska Institute have managed to show that the dopamine system in healthy, highly creative people is similar in some respects to that seen in people with schizophrenia.”
Humph! Is she neurotic or psychotic . . .
too close to call . . .
“High creative skills have been shown to be somewhat more common in people who have mental illness in the family. Creativity is also linked to a slightly higher risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
“Certain psychological traits, such as the ability to make unusual bizarre associations are also shared by schizophrenics and healthy, highly creative people. And now the correlation between creativity and mental health has scientific backing.”
“We have studied the brain and the dopamine D2 receptors, and have shown that the dopamine system of healthy, highly creative people is similar to that found in people with schizophrenia,” says associate professor Fredrik Ullén from Karolinska Institutet’s Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, co-author of the study that appears in the journal PLoS ONE.”
“Thinking outside the box might be facilitated by having a somewhat less intact box,” says Dr Ullén about his new findings.”
If I’m thinking in the box, I like to have lots of airholes. It’s like colouring inside the lines with the “appropiate” shades choosen. And definitely being “outside” if you ignore the black outlines, and make your trees a lovely shade of purple. I suspect I am both neurotic and psychotic. I have an urge to paint your fish lime green!
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Phylor,
I already tried to paint the fish different colors and the program wouldn’t save it! So I asked the fish and they said they would rather be alive and common than non-existent and vibrantly hued.
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I think your fish are very intuitive and smart. Orange isn’t such a bad colo(u)r. Now what rhymes with orange?
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you are right – we don’t need to put any labels on each other or ourselves…
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thoughtful and well written haiku
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Informative post and nice haiku!
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Wonderful, comforting post. I also love the final quote about a “less intact box”!
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Wonderfully composed Judith … I had to laugh.
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I have always felt that the line is thin. Reminds me of the film Francis, that I saw many many years ago, and that still lingers in my memory like a nightmare.
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What you don’t know won’t hurt you? 🙂
Nature Paints
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To me the crazy people are the ones who think I am 😉
Nice one.
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