{"id":6547,"date":"2015-06-08T10:47:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T17:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6547"},"modified":"2015-06-16T10:52:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T17:52:25","slug":"artists-really-are-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/06\/08\/artists-really-are-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists Really Are Crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/in.news.yahoo.com\/creativity-psychosis-share-genetic-source-150008026.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from\u00a0 AFP via YAHOO! News India<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"yui_3_9_1_1_1434465452596_903\" class=\"headline\">Creativity and psychosis share a genetic source: study<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/ste.india.com\/sites\/default\/files\/2014\/09\/23\/276040-brain-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Artistic creativity may share genetic roots with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, according to a study published on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The research, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, delves into a well-known genetic database &#8212; the deCODE library of DNA codes derived from samples provided by the population of Iceland.<\/p>\n<p>The authors first compared genetic and medical data from 86,000 Icelanders, establishing a DNA signature that pointed to a doubled risk for schizophrenia and an increase of a third for bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n<p>The next step was to look at the genomes of people engaged in artistic work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The results of this study should not have come as a surprise because to be creative, you have to think differently from the crowd, and we had previously shown that carriers of genetic factors that predispose to schizophrenia do so,&#8221; [Kari Stefansson] said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/in.news.yahoo.com\/creativity-psychosis-share-genetic-source-150008026.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to read complete article at YAHOO! News India<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from\u00a0 AFP via YAHOO! News India Creativity and psychosis share a genetic source: study Artistic creativity may share genetic roots with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, according to a study published on Monday. The research, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, delves into a well-known genetic database &#8212; the deCODE library of DNA codes derived from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}