Interesting piece of information when looking at the connection between schziophrenia and creativity... basically that of dopamine and its pleasure reward enhancement.
Here was the initial post as background
http://www.psychologytribe.com/forum...tightrope.html
Now consider....
"Many recreational drugs, such as cocaine and amphetamines, alter the functionality of the dopamine transporter (DAT), the protein responsible for removing dopamine from the neural synapse. When DAT activity is blocked, the synapse floods with dopamine and increases dopaminergic signaling. When this occurs, particularly in the nucleus accumbens, increased D1 and D2 receptor signaling mediates the "rewarding" stimulus of drug intake. Reward pathway signaling can affect other regions of the brain as well, inducing long-term changes in regions such as the nucleus accumbens and frontal cortex;these changes can strengthen drug craving and alter cognitive pathways, with drug abuse potentially creating drug addiction and drug dependence."
While there is a suggestion that highly creative people have less D2 in their thalamus like schiziophrenics which allows divergent connections to information... it is also plausible that highly creative people may have more distributive dopamine receptors which route thoughts along different neural pathways, or have higher concentrations of these dopamine receptors in other regions leading to entrophy though less use in the thalamus.
If I am right then you might find that sensing linear types have higher concentrations than the average in particular regions which reward a specific neurological pathway.
Interestingly, think of the flipside to this dopamine pleasure... does depression also route thoughts into divergence as well? Do they work in tandem - diametrically opposing but pushing and pulling divergence?
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