Re: The Old Curiosity Shop - Psychiatry
Brandon9000 wrote:John Jones wrote:(Brad Folley and Sohee Park of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., published online last week by the journal Schizophrenia Research.)
If you want to make that point, go ahead, but you have to actually offer evidence, and not BS evidence like this.
The work, by psychologists Brad Folley and Sohee Park of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., was published online last week by the journal Schizophrenia Research.
Psychologists believe a number of creative luminaries had schizotypal personalities, including Vincent Van Gogh, Albert Einstein, Emily Dickinson and Isaac Newton.
"The idea that schizotypes have enhanced creativity has been out there for a long time," but no one has studied how their brains work, Folley said. He and Park conducted two tests to compare the creative thinking processes of schizotypes, schizophrenics and "normal" people.
"All three groups, schizotypes, schizophrenics and normal controls, did use both hemispheres when performing creative tasks. But the brain scans of the schizotypes showed a hugely increased activation of the right hemisphere compared to the schizophrenics and the normal controls."
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/050906_weirdfrm.htm