WHY has schizophrenia not been eradicated from our genes? The answer might be because people with mild symptoms engage both sides of their brain and use more of it. And this allows them to excel at creative endeavours.
Individuals with a condition called schizotypal personality disorder have mild versions of some schizophrenia symptoms, such as slight paranoia or jumpy speech patterns, but not the hallucinations and delusions that characterise serious forms of the disease. They tend to perform particularly well on standard tests for creativity and are often related to people with schizophrenia.
Brad Folley and Sohee Park at Vanderbilt…
