Genius and Madness – Not so far apart..

Well, in the fine tradition of Science, it finally catches up with another fact that, well, everyone new and understood since time immemorial: There is a fine line between genius and insanity.

Psychologists have discovered that creative people have a gene in common which is also linked to psychosis and depression.
They believe that the findings could explain why "geniuses" like Vincent van Gogh and Sylvia Plath displayed such destructive behavior.
The gene, which is called neuregulin 1, plays a role in brain development but a variant of it is also associated with mental illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

Now that’s LATE.. I mean, will science ever find a way to keep up?
And will further advances be made by mad scientists? And I don’t mean slightly eccentric ones. I mean screaming-foaming-at-the-mouth-berserk geniuses locked up in high security facilities (not asylums, that’s not politically correct). And will they research themselves? I have to stop now.This is getting too weird..