Correlation Between Bipolar and Intelligence?
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The time course of cognitive impairment in bipolar disorder is not well studied. Certainly, some functions appear to tightly co-vary with clinical improvements, including measures of executive function and verbal fluency (McGrath et al., 1997). Some deficits have been shown to be more persistent, though it is unclear if cognitive improvement simply lags behind normalization of mood.
There are several views of cognitive impairment in bipolar disorder. Some investigators have suggested that tasks that demand the most effort or speed are difficult for patients with bipolar disorder. Another set of research findings indicates that patients with bipolar disorder suffer from right hemisphere cortical involvement that affects different types of visual perceptual processing for recognizing objects and determining orientations in space, as well as impacting on lateralized neural systems that regulate mood. None of these models has received consistent support in the scientific literature.
The relationship of cognitive impairment outcome in bipolar disorder is unclear. Moreover, studies of cognitive impairment in bipolar disorder often have not taken into account state changes. Thus, differences in cognition in the manic state, depressed state, or euthymic (normal) state have not been dissected. These areas should be researched further.
Does lithium cause cognitive impairment in bipolar disorder? There have been consistent findings that lithium has mild but adverse effects on long-term memory that involves the acquisition of new information (Judd, 1995). It is possible that the newer mood stabilizers (usually drugs with anticonvulsant properties, such as carbamezepine, depakote, and neurontin) will have less marked effects on cognition, especially memory.
Some studies have suggested a significant correlation between creativity and bipolar disorder. However, the relationship between the disorder and creativity is still very unclear.[2][3][4] One study indicated increased striving for, and sometimes obtaining, goals and achievements.[5]
There is a thin line between genius and insanity. The correlation is actually very strong. Across time people who have intelligence that mystify the rest of us are often reported as having severe mental problems as well. Einstein was bipolar and had an IQ of 160,. Mozart was severely depressed, or an earlier example Kurt Cobain was bipolar as well and admittedly a musical genius.
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I don't know for sure, but recently I watched this documentary called "The Devil and Daniel Johnston" This guy is bipolar, but he is a brilliant song writer/lyricist. You might enjoy this.
No, the people I have met with bipolar are usually the same as everyone else. It can affect a creative and intelligent person but there is no connection between art and mental illness. There is such a concept as the artistic temperament. Jim Morrison, Mick Jagger, Johnny Rotten, Patti Smith, Tori Amos, Mary J. Blige, Marianne Faithful and others had this type of attitude. I think someone like Courtney Love or Janis Joplin was messed up because of unresolved issues from childhood, the way the music industry treats women, personal issues, drugs, bad relationships and verbal abuse. Courtney Love was born with autism and could qualify as a borderline personality. So the art can take a different direction because of drugs, mental illness and such. I don't think there is a connection. I have met many who are not creative and intelligent and many artists who haven't got drug problems and mental illnesses.
As a Bi-Polar, I will say that there are many times when I notice that my peers aren't seeing as much as I am in any given situation.
I don't know if that constitutes higher intelligence or not, but I do know that my thought processes go alot faster at times than I can keep up with.
At times, when I project on the future and all the things that have to be in balance to have a good future, it feels overwhelming to me.
I can see now, after thirty years of not accepting my diagnosis, that meds help mellow out the thought process and alleviate the depression that comes with the racing thoughts that many of us present with.
With a high I.Q. comes the responsibility to oneself to use it as well and to the best purposes as one can.
However, with all those thoughts to be sorted through, I can see now how easy it was for me to get lost before I stayed with a treatment regimen.
so, yes, at times, I know when I am displaying a level of intelligence higher than most of those around me, but what good is that unless I can apply it consistently and purposefully to my life and to the enrichment of those lives around me?
I don't think a higher I.Q. is of any value until a person finds the avenue in which to enlist it at full value.
okay, first up, Einstein was not bi polar, he was autistic (Aspergers). secondly, most everyone else is right, there is a high correlation between creativity and bi polar disorder---Van Gogh and Abe Lincoln are just two examples. These people tend to think outside the box and creativity is an obvious extension of that.
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