Is there a link between Bipolar Disorder and creativity?

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brain chemistry

Dopamine receptors correlation

Frontal lobe connection

Similarities:highly creative & schizophrenics

Creativity

Dictionary Definition

Definition controversy

Tests

DT

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Controversy

During mania

During depression

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See PDF download Pers. Soc. Psch.: Dark Side...

Bipolar Disorder

Definition

Definition controversy

Cultural

adolescent symptom variation

History

Aristotle

Humours/melancholia

Lombroso

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See PDF

Socrates

Pahedus quote

Objectiions

Methodological errors

Diagnosing deceased

ill-defined creativity/bipolar disorder

Inaccurate assumptions

Waddell studies

Historiometry

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See Contemp. Answers to Ancient Question (Psychiatric Times) AND www.indiana.edu for the definition of historiometry.

Vincent Van Gogh

Popular assumption/beliefs

Michelangelo

Manic Depressive