Patients with bipolar disorders tend to have high creativity. The researchers studied 300,000 people are hospitalized with mental disorders and they found that patients who have bipolar disorders are more likely to work in a creative profession.
It was also found that families of patients with bipolar disorders, which does not have a mental disorder, is also much more involved in creative work as designers, artists, musicians, writers or university professors.
Bipolar disorders, also known as manic depressive disorder and affects about 1 percent of the population in the U.S.. Bipolar is characterized by extreme mood swings are very unstable from the very happy and then suddenly become very sad or depressed.
Bipolar disorders can last for days or even months. Unlike normal mood changes, mood swings in bipolar patients with very severe that it interferes with the performance. To explain more about bipolar disorders, please search here or you can read Understanding bipolar disorders.
"Commonly, creative people who do not have mental disorders, and commonly people are mentally ill are usually not creative. But there is a disproportionate rate of mental disorders, especially bipolar disorders in individuals who are very creative," said researcher Professor Kay Redfield from Johns Hopkins University of Medicine as dukutip from The Independent, Friday (04/11/2011).
"It is not known why it happens, but there may be a gene that creativity does not only play a role in certain types of professions, but also in patients with bipolar disorders," said Dr. Lori Altshuler of UCLA Mood Disorders Research Program who did not participate in the study.
"Bipolar patients have an unusual anatomy of the brain. Reduced settings frontal brain that play a role in influencing the ability of the amygdala and striatum affective thus enhancing affective instability and compulsivity," said Katherine P. Rankin, Ph.D. from the University of California-San Francisco.
The idea of setting-related reduction in frontal brain seems to cause a patient with bipolar disorders are more sensitive and reactive to external stimuli.
"The brain creative people seem more open to incoming stimuli from the surrounding environment," said Katherine.
With these findings may lead to more opportunities for care providers as a step to provide treatment programs that is more optimally in patients with bipolar disorders. Psychotherapy and rehabilitation therapy will result in progress for patients with exploring the resources that exist in themselves. So it will minimize dependence of medication that we know have side effects. learn about side effects of bipolar disorders medications.
Still need further research to find answers to more in-depth about how patients with bipolar disorders have a high tendency of creativity because of genetic factors other than conjecture. Are there other factors that contributed to the formation of creativity in patients with bipolar disorders?
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