Bipolars Can Do The Math

Here's linkage to the abstract on a study of intellectual ability pre-onset of bipolar disorder or schizophrenia in the American Journal of Psychiatry. As with most academic journals, it costs to read the full study. Aren't physicians and researchers just so special?

What's interesting is that bipolars are great at math and lousy at visuospatial matters, according to the study. No wonder why I got an A in Calculus but cannot draw to save my life.

What makes me question the applicability of the study to you and I is that it was done on Finnish soldiers circa mid-1980s. This is America and it's 20 years later. Still, it does tell us something.

Everyone recite the quadratic equation with me--and draw stick figures!