Are people with epilepsy more creative?

Are people with epilepsy more creative?

Charles Ribak, Ph.D. (Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, UC Irvine School of Medicine) gives expert video advice on: What causes a seizure?; If I had a seizure, do I have epilepsy?; Are people with epilepsy more creative? and more...

Certain epileptic people are more creative. There are some very good examples. Vincent Van Gogh, a very famous Dutch painter during the Impressionist Period, was thought to be an epileptic. Other people, such as Dostoevsky a very famous Russian writer was also considered to be an epileptic. So there are examples of people with epilepsy who have excelled in the arts and in literature.