Creativity and Psychopathology: A Shared Vulnerability Model
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Creativity and psychopathology: a shared vulnerability model.
Creativity is considered a positive personal trait. However, highly creative people have demonstrated elevated risk for certain forms of psychopathology, including mood disorders, schizophrenia spectrum disorders, and alcoholism. A model of shared vulnerability explains the relation between creativity and psychopathology. This model, supported by recent findings from neuroscience and molecular ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0706-7437,1497-0015
DOI: 10.1177/070674371105600304