KillerMuffin
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http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=healthnews&StoryID=1132668
People with a specific type of epilepsy tend to do better on tests of creativity, Turkish researchers said on Monday. Their findings could lend support to a theory that links the genius of people such as van Gogh and Lewis Carroll to epilepsy.
Dr. Erdem Togrol, of the Guelhane Military Medical Academy's training hospital, and colleagues assessed the creativity of 30 epileptic men and 36 men without the condition using a standard test. The test asks patients to use fragmented parts of a drawing to create a picture of their own.
While there were no significant differences between the two groups overall, the researchers did find a possible link between creativity and epilepsy in a subset of seven men with complex partial epilepsy (CPE). Togrol's team reported the findings here at the 12th meeting of the European Neurological Society.
Okay, so it doesn't actually mean anything because it was too limited and understudied, but what the hell. I'll take it.
People with a specific type of epilepsy tend to do better on tests of creativity, Turkish researchers said on Monday. Their findings could lend support to a theory that links the genius of people such as van Gogh and Lewis Carroll to epilepsy.
Dr. Erdem Togrol, of the Guelhane Military Medical Academy's training hospital, and colleagues assessed the creativity of 30 epileptic men and 36 men without the condition using a standard test. The test asks patients to use fragmented parts of a drawing to create a picture of their own.
While there were no significant differences between the two groups overall, the researchers did find a possible link between creativity and epilepsy in a subset of seven men with complex partial epilepsy (CPE). Togrol's team reported the findings here at the 12th meeting of the European Neurological Society.
Okay, so it doesn't actually mean anything because it was too limited and understudied, but what the hell. I'll take it.
