Scientists at the Karolinska Institutet, one of Europe’s largest medical universities, have managed to show that the ability to form divergent thought and find many different solutions to a problem is similar in healthy, highly creative people and in people with schizophrenia.
“Thinking outside the box might be facilitated by having a somewhat less intact box,” says associate professor Dr. Fredrik Ullén about his new findings.
The research used divergent psychological tests and looked at dopamine D2 receptors and the flow of information from the thalamus of the brain. See the full article for more science-y goodness.
Perhaps the two little characters from the other day were onto something when they said there was no box?
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