Recent large-scale registry and brain imaging studies are exploring the validity of this ancient observation, which linked creativity/genius and psychopathology. The results are mixed. Since the terms “genius” and “creativity” have different definitions, Psychiatric Times asked neuropsychologist and creativity expert Rex Jung, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery, Universi...

questions. He claims to offer more convincing explanations of extraordinary achievements than the usual fall-back option of attributing whatever it is that we may term "genius" to some mysterious, magical, undefined "special innate gift". Howe thus adds his contribution to the nature versus nurture debate. Can people be born geniuses? The simple answer, in Howe's account, is no. The whole work ...

Human saliva is clinically informative of both oral and general health. Since next generation shotgun sequencing (NGS) is now widely used to identify and quantify bacteria, we investigated the bacterial flora of saliva microbiomes of two healthy volunteers and five datasets from the Human Microbiome Project, along with a control dataset containing short NGS reads from bacterial species represen...

Wk are quite sure that we approve of Dr. Jacobson's most interesting and exceptionally well written book, but we are far from sure that we approve of his main thesis, which is that genius is inseparable from degeneracy. " Ironically enough," he writes, " it is_ in the outcast, disinherited, vagabond, criminal, defective, insane and generally abnormal elements of humankind that genius germinates...

GENIUS is a proposal for a large volume detector to search for rare events. An array of 40–400 ’naked’ HPGe detectors will be operated in a tank filled with ultrapure liquid nitrogen. After a description of performed technical studies of detector operation in liquid nitrogen and of Monte Carlo simulations of expected background components, the potential of GENIUS for detecting WIMP dark matter,...

? ho is remembered chiefly for the disasters of the Franco-German war and 0r his capture by the Germans at Sedan. Inevitably he has suffered by comj^rison with his famous uncle, the great Napoleon Bonaparte, and he has jj?1* dismissed as a weak and irresolute man of small capacity, and even sj!611 ^ubbed Napoleon the Little. To live in the shadow of genius is no easy Ration for any man, and Lou...

the light of the Genius Loci theory. The theory has been verified in many studies by the traditional-Islamic philosophers. Proving the closeness of these two viewpoints in extent and type of the environmental influences on disposition can open a venue for applying the theory of Genius Loci to establish a basis for environmental design in regions with Islamic and traditional cultures. This re...

GENIUS is a graphical software tool for visualizing genetic networks composed by a high number of genes. It accepts as input a matrix summarizing gene relationships inferred by means of reverse engineering methods. GENIUS offers two visualization modalities (the Agorà style and the TouchGraph style), that can be exploited in a complementary way. It is thus possible to obtain a clear and easily ...

In this paper, we seek to gain a deeper understanding of the function and performance of the Genius recommender system by comparing it to two simple, canonical systems: one based purely on metadata, the other purely on acoustic content. We evaluate this comparison using a large user study of 185 subjects and attempt also to discover the factors that are most important for building a playlist. W...