In the standard Hollywood formula, you pretty much can’t be a genius without also being nuts. Is there really a connection between great creativity and mental illness? Tamar Brott speaks with Kaye Redfield Jamison and other experts and tries to separate the truth ...

Wouldn't it be nice to find the little light bulb in your brain that goes off when you have a creative idea? Professor Nancy Andreasen, author of The Creating Brain: The Neuroscience of Genius, explains to Kurt about magnetic resonance imaging and what it can find in ...

It would be hard to write a novel - or read one - without the ability to empathize. Recent discoveries tell us that empathy may be hard-wired in our brains. V.S. Ramachandran, who teaches neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego, explains how mirror neurons ...

Kurt talks to David Freedberg about what mirror neurons do for us when we look at art. Freedberg is an art historian at Columbia University, but much of his work in recent years has focused on the connection between art and neuroscience.

What separates humans from animals? It used to be tools - and then we found out some animals are pretty handy. But what about art? There may be nothing prettier than birdsong, but each species sings pretty much the same tune. Are animals ever really creative? WBUR's

In his thirty year career as a musician, Robyn Hitchcock has become a cult favorite. From leading the New Wave band The Soft Boys to his own solo career as a surrealist folk-singer, Robyn has mixed whimsy with serious song-writing craft. His new band is called