Name: Mad Minds
Start: 2015-05-19T
End: 2015-05-19T
Location: The Bridge House

What drives us mad and why does madness exist? Join Prof. Sir Robin Murray and Dr. James MacCabe for a pint, to discuss the links between psychosis, cannabis and creativity

The lunatic, the lover and the poet; is there a link between creativity and psychosis?

Dr James MacCabe

Shakespeare, and many others before and since, have drawn parallels between artistic creativity and psychosis. But is artistic genius really akin to madness? Does delusional thinking spring from the same well as creative impulse? Is psychosis the price humankind pays for our ability to think creatively? And by treating psychosis, do we risk stifling creativity? All these questions will be explored by psychiatrist James using the latest evidence from epidemiological & genetic studies

Recipe for Psychosis: too much Drugs and not enough Sex and Rock and Roll

Professor Sir Robin Murray

Both genetic & environmental factors are involved in the aetiology of psychosis. Some people who develop psychosis have cognitive problems from neurodevelopmental abnormality. An alternative, which has been curiously neglected, is evidence that certain drugs induce schizophrenia-like psychosis. Recently growing evidence has linked cannabis (especially high potency forms) to psychosis, and now cannabis abuse reportedly accounts for nearly one quarter of new cases of psychosis in south London

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