BBC: Creative minds 'mimic schizophrenia'

[kpete]

Creative minds 'mimic schizophrenia'
Saturday, 29 May 2010 2:32 UK

By Michelle Roberts Health reporter, BBC News

Creativity is akin to insanity, say scientists who have been studying how the mind works.

Brain scans reveal striking similarities in the thought pathways of highly creative people and those with schizophrenia.

Both groups lack important receptors used to filter and direct thought.

It could be this uninhibited processing that allows creative people to "think outside the box", say experts from Sweden's Karolinska Institute.

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more:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/10154775.stm

[rfranklin]

1. Actually its the other way round...

Ponder that.

[willing dwarf]

2. Tangential thinking and loose associations

typify creative thinking. Fluidity of thought leads to an ability to move easily from one concept to another and relate them.

What about it?

I never wanted to be inside the box. In fact, I think I'm not sure if I even recognize the box anymore, and I'm sure I'm perfectly sane and highly creative. So be it.

[Cassandra]

4. Sounds like me.

My mind cross-references in very interesting ways.

[RagAss]

3. The Box itself is insanity !

[Duer 157099]

5. And I'm sure they're working hard on a cure

Can't have people who think outside boxes these days now can we?

[Swamp Rat]

6. I've been saying that to myselves for years.

:D

[yella_dawg]

7. Oh! I'm creative.

Good to know.

[HughMoran]

8. Doesn't surprise me

My do-nothing coworker used to make wise cracks from time to time. Didn't bother him that I designed 50 products in the time it took him to do 2 (10 years). Designing the products required a significant amount of creativity and the confidence to try something that seems ridiculous initially.

[xchrom]

9. Odd -- I don't find this surprising. Nt