Bipolar Disorder and Creativity WisdomCard™
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Research Notes on Bipolar Disorder and Creativity
Bipolar disorder has been linked to creativity. The association between the two first appeared in literature in the 1970s. In 2005, Stanford University School of Medicine found that children who either have or are at high risk for bipolar disorder scored higher on a creativity index. Children who had bipolar parents and were not bipolar themselves also scored higher.1
Fast Facts:
- Many famous creative people have been linked bipolar disorder. This includes artist Vincent van Gogh and writer Virginia Woolf.2
- Other artists that suffered from bipolar disorder include Beethoven, Lord Byron, and Charles Dickens.3
- Some studies have shown that creativity during a manic or depressive episode tends to worsen symptoms.4
- Many artists and celebrities have suffered from a mental illness. Check out OrganizedWisdom's slideshow Celebrities with Mental Illness.
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Research Notes References
- ↑ Wikipedia: Creativity and Mental Illness
- ↑ EverydayHealth: Bipolar Disorder and Creativity: What's the Connection?
- ↑ ABC News: The Cost Of Creativity: Bipolar Disorder and the Stars
- ↑ Health Talk: Bipolar Disorder Linked to Creativity
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- Contributor: Chris Miller
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Last update: Oct. 14, 2009
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- Contributor: Chris Miller
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: Creativity and Bipolar Disorder, Bipolar and Creativity, Creativity and Bipolar, Bipolar Creativity, Bipolar Disorder Creativity
- Last update: Apr. 1, 2009
Each WisdomCard is handcrafted by our team of physician-guided health advocates. Our goal is to make it easy for you to find the most useful health resources for any health topic by filtering out spam and bad links.
