The sound of the word artist almost automatically brings to mind the adjective "crazy."
There is the belief that creative people are more likely than non-creative to develop a mental illness, prevalent psychosis and bipolar disorder. And almost everyone can attest it with a name from the global art history.
People with high creative ability showed a lower density of D2 receptors in the chamber, relative to the non-creative. The same phenomenon is typical in people with schizophrenia.
The chamber acts as a kind of filter in the brain, separating the signals before they reach the cortex, which is responsible for operation of the process of rational thought. So fewer dopamine D2 receptors in the area and the subsequent lower filtarisma, allowing greater flow of information to the cortex.
Τhis "malfunction" seems to be the link between schizophrenia and artists.
The chamber acts as a kind of filter in the brain, separating the signals before they reach the cortex, which is responsible for operation of the process of rational thought. So fewer dopamine D2 receptors in the area and the subsequent lower filtarisma, allowing greater flow of information to the cortex.
Τhis "malfunction" seems to be the link between schizophrenia and artists.
The basic difference between them, though, is their way of expression.
Creative people, with a mental illness or not, have the opportunity all this information, feelings, thoughts that glut them, to express them better or to transform and giving them form. Counter to psychotics, the expression is delirium and psefsaisthiseis (if we speak of positive symptoms).
Art can serve as a mirror of feelings and thoughts, the first step to conscious control.
