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Biological Basis For Creativity Linked To Mental Illness, ScienceDaily
 









Excerpts: Psychologists (...) have identified one of the biological bases of
creativity. (...) brains of creative people appear to be more open to incoming
stimuli from the surrounding environment. Other people's brains might shut out
this same information through a process called "latent inhibition" - defined as
an animal's unconscious capacity to ignore stimuli that experience has shown are
irrelevant to its needs. "Scientists have wondered for a long time why madness
and creativity seem linked. (...) low levels of latent inhibition and
exceptional flexibility in thought might predispose to mental illness under some
conditions and to creative accomplishment under others."
Source: Biological Basis For Creativity Linked To Mental Illness[
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/10/031001061055.htm ], ScienceDaily
& Univ. Of Toronto, 2003/10/01
Contributed by Atin Das - dasatinyahoo.co.in

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