Insanity and genius

Genius explained

The physician's art is the catalogue of an exhibition of over 100 images and other objects from the collections of four North Carolina medical schools. In a finely-judged Preface, structured around specific examples shown, Martin Kemp points out some of the historical issues involved in the study of medical imagery and artifacts, beginning with the problem of what "realism" means in the context...

Insanity

Genius and nonlinear dynamics

Genius is defined as a person of outstanding mental skills. These skills result from genius’ brain structure and physiology that are determined by genetics. It seems that environment and education may only inhibit development of a genius. Based on a simple model of brain phase space we formulate two hypotheses about dynamics of mental processes in genius’ brain and the difference between genius...

Family background and genius.

OBJECTIVE It is widely believed among professionals and laity that genius is born and not made. However, the early and still-influential statistical studies of Frances Galton on the inheritance of genius have neither been supported nor definitively refuted. This study empirically assesses the hereditary transmission hypothesis. METHODS We collected family background data on 50 Nobel Prize lau...

Tuberculosis and Genius

IN a letter to the "'British Medical Journal'' of September 10, 1921, 'Mr. S. T. Irwin dealt with the relation between chroniic infections and mental activity. He stated: "Many substances, toxic in large doses, act merely as stimulanits when adnministered in normal amounts. If wte assumne that, in a case of moderate tuberculous infectioni, small amounts of tuberculini are bein,,constantlNabsorb...