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SUMMARY:Profs & Pints Alameda: Creativity\, Moods\, and Mania
LOCATION:Faction Brewing
DESCRIPTION:Saved in Palaner as: saved\n\nPalaner match: 25% · why: lots of
  people going\n\nProfs and Pints Alameda presents: “Creativity\, Moods\, a
 nd Mania\,” an exploration of how depression\, mania\, and everyday ups an
 d downs influence different types of creativity\, with Sheri L. Johnson\, 
 distinguished professor of psychology and director of a bipolar disorder r
 esearch program at the University of California at Berkeley.\n\nTickets av
 ailable only online\, at [https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpi
 nts/alameda-creativity-moods-mania .]\n\nAncient quotes on creativity\, mo
 ods and mood disorders abound. Aristotle wrote\, “No great mind has ever e
 xisted without a touch of madness.” Lord Byron\, describing poets\, later 
 observed\, “We of the craft are all crazy. Some are affected by gaiety\, o
 thers by melancholy\, but all are more or less touched.”\n\nBut is there r
 eally a link between moods\, mood disorders\, and creativity? What does mo
 dern science have to say about the subject?\n\nExplore such questions with
  Dr. Sheri L. Johnson\, director of the CALM (Cal Mania) Program at UC-Ber
 keley. Her research there studies how mood—especially the highs and lows o
 f bipolar disorder—shapes people’s lives\, including their creativity\, go
 als\, and well-being\, as well as what mechanisms contribute to mood episo
 des and recovery.\n\nShe'll begin with a discussion of how scientists meas
 ure creativity in life and in the laboratory\, describing what we have lea
 rned from hundreds of experimental studies on creativity and mood. Some fi
 ndings indicate that happiness\, at modest levels\, can help foster creati
 vity\, while negative moods can interfere with it. We’ll consider how we c
 an draw from these scientific findings to protect our own creativity.\n\nT
 urning to mood disorders\, Professor Johnson will describe how mania was a
  well-documented part of the lives of major creative figures such as Lord 
 Byron\, Vincent Van Gogh\, Virginia Woolf\, Edgar Allen Poe\, Ernest Hemin
 gway\, and Alfred Tennyson.\n\nBeyond biographical summaries\, she’ll high
 light findings of a country-wide study of the Swedish population which con
 nected higher creativity to a personal and family history of bipolar disor
 der. She’ll also outline findings of studies designed to test why mood dis
 orders might relate to creativity\, and we’ll consider the evidence so far
  on whether medications for bipolar disorder help or hinder creativity amo
 ng those with a history of mania. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing
  fees. Doors: $17\, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. Th
 e talk starts 30 minutes later.)\n\nImage: From a self-portrait painted by
  Vincent van Gogh in 1889 after slicing off his own ear (Courtald Institut
 e of Art / Wikimedia).
URL:https://www.meetup.com/profs-and-pints-sf-bay-area/events/315808449/
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