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8 - Creativity and Psychopathology: A Relationship of Shared Neurocognitive Vulnerabilities

from Part II - Pharmacology and Psychopathology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2018

Rex E. Jung
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University of New Mexico
Oshin Vartanian
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University of Toronto
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