June 2015

Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh was believed to suffer from schizophrenia and musician Kurt Cobain was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. The incidence of such conditions in creative individuals has led researchers to speculate…

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The ancient Greeks were the first to take stock. Shakespeare also mentioned the prospect. But Lord Byron was perhaps the most blunt of all: "We in the business are all mad," he told the Countess of Blessington, casting a suspicious eye…