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: melancholia
Transcript: despair and Melancholia to ecstasy that most people do not. I think it's a lot more complicated than that. We know people's brains change on neuroimaging