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7 - A Heated Debate: Time to Address the Underpinnings of the Association between Creativity and Psychopathology?

from Part II - Pharmacology and Psychopathology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2018

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Simon Kyaga
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Rex E. Jung  and
Oshin Vartanian
Rex E. Jung
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University of New Mexico
Oshin Vartanian
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University of Toronto
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The Cambridge Handbook of the Neuroscience of Creativity , pp. 114 - 135
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