Science is a human activity and like all human activities, it has its share of drama and pathos. The scientific product is often an interaction of certain ways of thinking, personality traits, and circumstances. This essay examines these factors and how the melding of that could lead to breakthrough discoveries. It may in some instances, go wrong, or take a morally ambiguous path.
Creativity ; Philosophy, Medical ; Research

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Creativity ; Education, Medical

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a clinical syndrome characterized by profound changes in personality and behavior. It is associated with degeneration of the prefrontal and anterior temporal cortex. There have been reports of patients with FTD who developed a new interest or increased creativity in the visual arts during their illness. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of a patient with a newfound interest in drawing after the onset of FTD in Korea.
Creativity ; Frontotemporal Dementia ; Humans ; Korea

Categorical approach to define old age by biological ages and their adaptational vulnerabilities falls into ageism, for the boundary of aging constantly changed because of longevity. Old age should be understood in developmental perspectives with proactive and meaning-making view of life. Old age is indeed an active developmental process for fuller, up-graded and more matured conditions despite obstacles due to biological aging. It is a challenge for change of old self upsetting old beliefs, and to make meanings to new ideas and patterns. Thus old age welcomes new experiences in which hidden capabilities are found and materialized. They realize the rights to refuse, choose and organize with increased sensitivities on life, self and conditions for their growth. This challenge against risks and for openness with wisdom of experiences lead life of an old age to be creative. Creativity sets off old people to advantage.
Ageism ; Aging ; Creativity ; Human Rights ; Longevity

PURPOSE: Class climate is defined as the general attitude of instructors and students in class. Analysing the instructor's behavior helps build a desirable class climate and improves academic achievement and class instruction. METHODS: The checklist using a five-point scale and consisting of 28 pairs of contrary adjectives was divided into four categories of creativeness, activeness, precision, and mildness. Two different classes taught by one instructor were studied. There were five supervisors for this study and a simple statistical analysis was done. RESULTS: For the undergraduate class, the observers' assessments showed the lowest overall point in activeness and the highest in mildness. In general, points given by the instructor were higher than the supervisor's and the student's. CONCLUSION: The instructor's perception of the class was more positive than the observers' and the students'. This means that all tested categories need to be improved. One way of dealing with this problem for the instructor is to set up a meeting with the supervisor and design a class climate improvement plan.
Checklist ; Climate* ; Creativity ; Humans ; Organization and Administration*

There are many various complications associated with coronary artery stenting, in cluding thrombotic and hemorrhagic complications, in-stent restenosis, side branch occlusion, stent embolization. The retention of equipment components is the uncommon, unexpected and often problematic situations that can arise requiring ingenuity, skill, and creativity. We reports on a patient in whom an sleeve marker ring of a stent balloon catheter retained within the lumen of the coronary artery following coronary stenting. The sleeve marker ring was extracted by dilatation and withdrawal of balloon catheter which readvanced over a guidewire positioned in the center of ring.
Catheters ; Coronary Vessels* ; Creativity ; Dilatation ; Humans ; Stents*

Neuroaesthetics is an area of research on the essence of aesthetic experience according to the neurobiological perspective. The purpose of this article is to introduce both the important results from some studies based on neuroaesthetics and some neuroaesthetic reports in specific psychiatric disease. Aesthetic experience is thought to be a series of cognitive and affective processes for pursuing aesthetic judgment and aesthetic emotion. According to the present neuroaesthetic studies, the important domains are reward system, embodiment, aesthetic perspective in contrast with practical perspective, sublime, and so on. The neuroaesthetic approach to specific psychiatric disease is just beginning; however, case studies on the sudden appearance of artistic talents in neuropsychiatric patients have been frequently reported. We expect that neuroaesthetics is likely to continue to contribute new knowledge regarding the ultimate causes of various psychiatric diseases and the creativity of many psychiatric patients.
Aptitude ; Beauty ; Brain ; Creativity ; Humans ; Judgment ; Reward

Creativity ; Education, Medical ; Humans ; Trees ; United States

For developing the Group Health care system, health managers' job structure were analysed in the aspects of content, amount, and process. As a trial research, data were collected by a standardized job analysis table to 6 doctors, 40 nurses, and 11 industrial hygienists of Group Health Care System. Health care managers were performing complex and intellectual jobs such as health education for workers, managing health care, conference as well as more simple jobs like as filling diary. Especially, job was consisted of general job and health care management job in the proportion of 1:2.18. The major general job were data management related with the health statistics, and major health care management jobs were managing health care, health counselling, environmental management of working sites. Each specific jobs were required differentiated intellectual capacity, creativity, autonomy, psychic stress, and physical work; most respondents perceived that health care management jobs should require more inputs than general jobs Additionally job satisfaction and perceived need on specific job items were analysed. Results of this research, suggested through the field experiences in working sites, should be considered for improving the Group Health Care System.
Creativity ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Delivery of Health Care* ; Health Education ; Job Satisfaction

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to explore the experience of the meaning in life for elementary school students. METHODS: The conceptual framework was based on the five main concepts (meaning in life, creativity, experiences, attitudes, choice and responsibility) of logotherapy. Data from 1,600 higher grade elementary school students were analyzed for content of meaning in life. RESULTS: The experiences of meaning in life were identified as follows: Important things in my life (people close to me, things that brings me happiness, to live in earnest, surrounding environment), Activities I like to do (relaxing, achievements, family relationships), Experiences that made me feel like I am loved (taken care of by family, material recompense, being respected), Times when I feel grateful (receive love and care, health), Importance of choices (consequences of bad choices, result of good life choices). CONCLUSION: These results suggest that elementary school students can understand meaningcentered health education and this kind of education is necessary to promote their wholistic health.
Creativity ; Education ; Happiness ; Health Education ; Holistic Health ; Humans ; Love ; Psychotherapy*