转：天才与疯子的科学依据
2、天才与疯子
这个话题真不新鲜，梵高、海子、伽罗华……
原来还真有基因学上的原因。
Scientific blogging 上说，neuregulin 1与神经元之间的交流活动有关，也与精神疾病有关。下面摘录一段
In the study, the researchers recruited volunteers who considered themselves to be very creative and accomplished. They underwent a battery of tests, including assessments for intelligence and creativity.
To measure creativity, the volunteers were asked to respond to a series of unusual questions (for example, “Just suppose clouds had strings attached to them which hang down to earth. What would happen?”) and were scored based on the originality and flexibility of their answers. They also completed a questionnaire regarding their lifetime creative achievements before the researchers took blood samples.
They say the results showed a clear link between neuregulin 1 and creativity: Volunteers with the specific variant of this gene were more likely to have higher scores on the creativity assessment and also greater lifetime creative achievements than volunteers with a different form of the gene.
Kéri notes that this is the first study to show that a genetic variant associated with psychosis may have some beneficial functions. He observes that “molecular factors that are loosely associated with severe mental disorders but are present in many healthy people may have an advantage enabling us to think more creatively.”
http://limiao.net/1356
爱幻想的孩子或许具有高度创造力
大德之后多痴，大才之后多疯——亚里士多德
这个话题真不新鲜，梵高、海子、伽罗华……
原来还真有基因学上的原因。
Scientific blogging 上说，neuregulin 1与神经元之间的交流活动有关，也与精神疾病有关。下面摘录一段
In the study, the researchers recruited volunteers who considered themselves to be very creative and accomplished. They underwent a battery of tests, including assessments for intelligence and creativity.
To measure creativity, the volunteers were asked to respond to a series of unusual questions (for example, “Just suppose clouds had strings attached to them which hang down to earth. What would happen?”) and were scored based on the originality and flexibility of their answers. They also completed a questionnaire regarding their lifetime creative achievements before the researchers took blood samples.
They say the results showed a clear link between neuregulin 1 and creativity: Volunteers with the specific variant of this gene were more likely to have higher scores on the creativity assessment and also greater lifetime creative achievements than volunteers with a different form of the gene.
Kéri notes that this is the first study to show that a genetic variant associated with psychosis may have some beneficial functions. He observes that “molecular factors that are loosely associated with severe mental disorders but are present in many healthy people may have an advantage enabling us to think more creatively.”
http://limiao.net/1356
爱幻想的孩子或许具有高度创造力
大德之后多痴，大才之后多疯——亚里士多德
