Mapping Neuroimaging Findings of Creativity and Brain Disease Onto a Common Brain Circuit.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Creativity is important for problem solving, adaptation to a changing environment, and innovation. Neuroimaging studies seeking to map creativity have yielded conflicting results, and studies of patients with brain disease have reported both decreases and paradoxical increases in creativity, leaving the neural basis of creativity unclear.

Objective

To investigate the brain circuit underlying creativity and assess its association with brain injury and neurodegenerative disease.

Design, setting, and participants

This study examined neuroimaging coordinates from a meta-analysis of 36 studies published between 2004 and 2019 associated with increased activity during creative tasks in healthy participants. A validated method termed coordinate network mapping and

SUBMITTER: Kutsche J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11826368 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature