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Liability-scale h² for artistic creativity, scientific creativity, managerial creativity, and overall occupational creativity, Observed-scale h² for creative achievement. Vertical bars represent 95% CIs. Asterisks denote the comparison of heritability between artistic creativity, scientific creativity, and managerial creativity at Bonferroni-adjusted p-values < 0.01667.

Subgroups sharing similar creativity trajectories over time extracted using longitudinal TTCT-F Average Raw scores from N_behav = 48 participants. (A) Subgroups observed in the cohort. Based on how creativity scores change over time, three subgroups were found, as shown in the similarity matrix and the graph (B), which also shows the proportion of 3^rd and 4^th graders in each subgroup. (C) Shows creativity score trajectories for each subgroup, while controlling for the starting grade. The error-bar represents standard error of the mean. The creativity trajectory for subgroup 1 (CT1) shows a slump in creativity within their starting grade and a boom after transitioning to next grade, while the creativity trajectory for subgroup 2 (CT2) shows the inverse. For subgroup 3 (CT3), the creativity trajectory shows no change in creativity within starting grade and then a boom in creativity after transitioning to next grade. Asterisks (*) denote FDR-corrected p-values for the post-hoc t-tests (see ).

Schema of five theses on the relationship between creativity and psychiatric disorders. The five theses on the relationship between creativity and psychiatric disorders are as follows: (1) opposition: creativity emerges “in spite of” psychiatric disorder; (2) parallelism: creativity emerges “because of” psychiatric disorder; (3) substitution: creativity emerges “instead of” psychiatric disorder; (4) intrinsic: creativity emerges “belonging to” psychiatric disorder; and (5) sublimation: creativity emerges “subsequent to” psychiatric disorder. These theses should be investigated first, but other possibilities should also be considered when starting a pathographic study.

A, Lesion overlap maps from Abraham et al showing groups of patients with lesions in different neuroanatomical locations. Patients with lesions to the lateral frontal lobe (right) had impaired performance on creativity tasks, while patients with lesions to the frontal pole (left) had higher performance. B, Topographical relation of overlap maps in (A, white outlines) to the creativity circuit. Intersection of the lesion locations with our creativity circuit was significantly associated with lesion-induced effects on creativity task performance (eFigure 4 in Supplement 1). rFP indicates right frontal pole.