The brain of the genius and Crazy It's Not Much Different

Many world leaders genius who appears to have psychiatric disorders. This makes many people suspect that genius and madness is thin. Now new research suggests that genius and mental illness are actually related and scientists discovered the reason.

 The idea that there is a relationship between genius and madness has fascinated many people for a long time. Thinking comes about because people see a lot of genius figures which appeared to have psychiatric disorders. 

Isaac Newton (physicist), Ludwig van Beethoven (composer), Edgar Allan Poe (writer), Vincent van Gogh (painter) and John Nash (mathematician) are examples of those geniuses who have psychiatric disorders to schizophrenia.




Many experts are debating the issue and continues to do research to make a clear definition between genius and insanity. But now the relationship between genius and madness is no longer just a joke. Recent studies have shown that two extreme thoughts are really concerned and scientists began to understand why.Recent research results have been discussed at an event held as part of the 5th annual World Science Festival on May 31 in New York.One of the panelists at the event, Kay Redfield Jamison, a clinical psychologist and professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, said the findings of 20 or 30 scientific studies support the notion of 'tortured genius'.Of the many types of psychosis, creativity seems to be most strongly associated with mood disorders (mood) and especially bipolar disorder, which is also suffered by Jamison himself.For example, a study of Swedish test the intelligence of 700,000 people aged 16 years and then followed up for 10 years to study the possibility of developing a mental illness.

The result is quite surprising and has been published in 2010."They found that people who excel when they were aged 16 years and four times more likely to continue to develop bipolar disorder," said Jamison, as reported by LiveScience,

Bipolar disorder requires a dramatic change of mood between extreme happiness (known as mania) and severe depression. How could this brutal cycle raises creativity?"People with bipolar tend to be creative when they get out of depression. When a bipolar patient's mood improved, brain activity shifted. Activity die at the bottom of the brain called the frontal lobe and burning in the higher part of the lobe," explained James Fallon, a neurobiological from the University of California-Irvine, who was also a panelist.Remarkably, up Fallon, a similar shift occurred when people have a very high creativity."There is a relationship between a circuit that has to do with bipolar and creativity," said Fallon.As for how the brain translates the pattern into the conscious mind, Elyn Saks, mental health law professor at the University of Southern California, explains that people with psychosis do not filter out stimuli as normal people.In contrast, patients psychosis may consider contradictory ideas simultaneously and become aware of the free association of mostly unconscious brain does not consider it appropriate person to be sent to the surface of consciousness."The invasion of crap into the conscious mind can be overwhelming and distracting, it can also be very creative," said Elyn Saks, who also developed schizophrenia when young.But of course not always the creative energies appear during severe bouts of depression or schizophrenia. Above all, scientists say the condition of mental disorder, either depression or schizophrenia, can be debilitating and even life threatening.