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Creativity and mental illness: prevalence rates in writers and their first-degree relatives.

Author:	NC Andreasen
Edition/Format:	Article : English
Publication:	The American journal of psychiatry, 1987 Oct; 144(10): 1288-92
Database:	From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Summary:	Rates of mental illness were examined in 30 creative writers, 30 matched control subjects, and the first-degree relatives of both groups. The writers had a substantially higher rate of mental illness, predominantly affective disorder, with a tendency toward the bipolar subtype. There was also a higher prevalence of affective disorder and creativity in the writers' first-degree relatives, suggesting that these traits run together in families and could be genetically mediated. Both writers and control subjects had IQs in the superior range; the writers excelled only on the WAIS vocabulary subtest, confirming previous observations that intelligence and creativity are independent mental abilities.  Read more...
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