Parents with depression are more likely children are born creative

Parents who are prone to depression, greater are the chances of having a child with creativity than those who do not suffer from this problem. Scientists at Stanford University (USA) studied the relation between the inclination to creativity and mood disorders. For this purpose, they offered the children pass a special test on creativity: to answer the child had, whether we like it or not different forms experts compared the results of tests and found that children (not very creative people are quite simple and symmetrical figures.) whose parents were prone to depression, were more creative. Professor of psychiatry and co-author of the study, Terence Ketter, that interest in the link between depression and talent when he noticed that people tend to despite the disease, are very bright and motivated employees lead an interesting life. According to experts, is a possible explanation that the creative activity of depressed individuals from the negative emotions that pushed you to be born, causing him to seek a solution to the problem. Dissatisfaction, in this case - the "mother" of the imagination, experts say. As it is, however, transmitted to children, scientists still can not explain exactly. Can the role of education and family traditions (creative and non-creative, respectively) and more genes play. Also, as previously reported, to do the creative people with the music, there is a higher quality of thinking.