Genetic variation links creativity to psychiatric disorders
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Empirical evidence has associated individual levels of creativity with psychotic or bipolar disorders, and this association has recently been confirmed at a genetic level.
“For example, empirical evidence has associated individual levels of creativity with psychotic or bipolar disorders 38,39 , and this association has recently been confirmed at a genetic level 40 .”
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- Authors
- Keller, M. C., & Visscher, P. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Colorado Boulder (US)
- The University of Queensland (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Keller, Matthew C
- Visscher, Peter M
- Venue
- Nature Neuroscience
- Published
- 2015-06-25
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 928-929
- ISSN
- 1097-6256 (ISSN-L)
- 1546-1726
- PMC
- PMC4590283
- OpenAlex
- W1563919445
- Cited by
- 23
- References
- 12
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2021: 5 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 2
- FWCI
- 2.71
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH100141, K01MH085812)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Keywords
- creativity, mental illness, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, genetic variation, genome-wide association study, genetic overlap
- MeSH terms
- Bipolar Disorder, Creativity, Female, Humans, Male, Psychotic Disorders, Registries, Schizophrenia, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Multifactorial Inheritance
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