Research designed to examine the relationship between creativity and mental illnesses must confront multiple challenges. What is the optimal sample to study? How should creativity be defined? What is the most appropriate comparison group? Only a limited number of studies have examined highly creative individuals using personal interviews and a noncreative comparison group. The majority of these have examined writers. The preponderance of the evidence suggests that in these creative individuals the rate of mood disorder is high, and that both bipolar disorder and unipolar depression are quite common. Clinicians who treat creative individuals with mood disorders must also confronta variety of challenges, including the fear that treatment may diminish creativity, in the case of bipolar disorder, hovt/ever, it is likely that reducing severe manic episodes may actually enhance creativity in many individuals.

Nancy C. Andreasen

Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience

《临床神经科学对话》是一份季刊，旨在通过提供有关临床、生物学和治疗方面的最新信息和原创见解，充当临床神经精神病学和神经科学之间的接口。每期都针对一个特定的主题，作者由编辑委员会邀请。所有投稿均由编辑委员会成员审阅，并提交给专家顾问进行同行评审。

Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience is a quarterly journal that serves as a bridge between clinical psychiatry and neuroscience by providing the latest information and original insights in clinical, biological, and therapeutic aspects. Each issue focuses on a specific theme, with authors invited by the editorial board. All submissions are reviewed by members of the editorial board and sent to expert advisors for peer review.

《Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience》是一份季刊，旨在通过提供临床、生物学和治疗方面的最新信息与原创见解，充当临床神经精神病学与神经科学之间的桥梁。每期围绕一个特定主题，作者由编辑委员会邀请。所有投稿均由编辑委员会成员审阅，并提交给专家顾问进行同行评审。

The relationship between creativity and mood disorders

It is likely that reducing severe manic episodes may actually enhance creativity in many individuals, and Clinicians who treat creative individuals with mood disorders must also confront a variety of challenges.

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The relationship between creativity and mood disorders

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