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Psychiatric Illnesses and Creative People
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Psychiatric Illnesses and Creative People

Professor of psychiatry and author Kay Redfield Jamison says that, in rare instances, "...there's an unusual combination that can occur in some people...where you have someone who's imaginative to begin with, and then give them an intense mood disor...
Subject: manic-depressive
Transcript: When people are manic, for example. Their brains light up like christmas trees. If you give people cognitive tasks to do when they're Mildly manic