Links between Creativity and Mental Disorder

Psychiatry

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 81-98

  Lauronen, Erika ^a   Veijola, Juha ^a,b   Isohanni, Irene ^c   Jones, Peter B ^d   Nieminen, Pentti ^a   Isohanni, Matti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b Hospital District of Lapland   (Finland)

^c OULU UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CREATIVITY; ETHICS; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; MEDLINE; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY DISORDER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PSYCINFO; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; STRENGTH; STRESS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CREATIVENESS; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS;

EID: 1942444461     PISSN: 00332747     EISSN: 1943281X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/psyc.67.1.81.31245     Document Type: Article

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