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Psychosis and Creativity. Genetic and Structural Relation Between Them

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

A. Alonso Sánchez ,
H. De la Red Gallego ,
A. Álvarez Astorga ,
M. Gómez García ,
N. De Uribe Viloria ,
M. De Lorenzo Calzón ,
S. Gómez Sánchez ,
S. Cepedello Pérez  and
J.A. Blanco Garrote
H. De la Red Gallego
Affiliation:
Hospital Clinico Universitario de Valladolid, Psychiatry, Valladolid, Spain
A. Álvarez Astorga
Affiliation:
Hospital Clinico Universitario de Valladolid, Psychiatry, Valladolid, Spain
M. Gómez García
Affiliation:
Hospital Clinico Universitario de Valladolid, Psychiatry, Valladolid, Spain
N. De Uribe Viloria
Affiliation:
Hospital Clinico Universitario de Valladolid, Psychiatry, Valladolid, Spain
M. De Lorenzo Calzón
Affiliation:
Hospital Clinico Universitario de Valladolid, Psychiatry, Valladolid, Spain
S. Gómez Sánchez
Affiliation:
Hospital Clinico Universitario de Valladolid, Psychiatry, Valladolid, Spain
S. Cepedello Pérez
Affiliation:
Hospital Clinico Universitario de Valladolid, Psychiatry, Valladolid, Spain
J.A. Blanco Garrote
Affiliation:
Hospital Clinico Universitario de Valladolid, Psychiatry, Valladolid, Spain

Abstract

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Introduction

Madness and creativity are thought to be related from ancient ages. Nowadays, thanks to new scientific developments and researches we are able to identify common genetic and brain patterns between creativity and psychosis.

Objectives

Taking the inspiration of a psychotic patient with some shocking drawings, we want to get deep into the actual knowledge about the relation between creativity and psychosis.

Methods

Case report and bibliographic review.

Results

A 19-year-old man was brought to the hospital after having been found making strange rituals in the public way. In the anamnese he showed to have experienced mystic delusions and hallucinations. He made some particularly creative drawings.

We made a review which showed that this patients may have a diminished latent inhibition, which could make them experiencing usual live irrelevant stimuli as something very exciting and creative at the same time. Genome wide association studies show also that people having creative jobs and psychotic patients share some genes, which could be linked to this abnormal latent inhibition.

Conclusions

Latent inhibition abnormalities could be related with psychosis and creativity. There are differences within the course of people having this oversensibility, which could be explained due to the presence of protective and risk factors.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-Poster Viewing: Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. s801
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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