Rosa Aurora Chávez

George Washington University

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Carlos Cruz-Fuentes

Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría

Ximena González-Grandón

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Jesús Ramírez‐Bermúdez

Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía

Víctor Hugo Córdova

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Vı́ctor Vaugier

Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría

Nashyiela Loa

Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría

Ma. del Carmen Lara

Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla

Juan Carlos Garcı́a-Reyna

Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría

Ariel Graff‐Guerrero

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

C. Jiménez

Centro de Investigación del Cáncer

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Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla

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Asociación Española de Psiquiatría del Niño y el Adolescente

Ibero American University

Instituto de Filosofía y Ciencias de la Complejidad

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Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía

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La creatividad y la psicopatología

Salud Mental (2000)

Rosa Aurora Chávez María del Carmen Lara

Resumen en: What is the relation between creativity and psychopathology? Does psychopathology facilitate creativity? Does creative activity induce psychopathology?...

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Clinical narrative and the painful side of conscious experience

Philosophical Psychology (2024)

Jesús Ramírez‐Bermúdez Ximena González-Grandón Rosa Aurora Chávez

This article explores a literary tradition situated at the intersection of scientific reports, memoirs, and creative writing, termed "clinical narrative." This genre offers a profound approach to the painful aspects of conscious experience, particularly the phenomenological states associated with mental illness and brain disease, seen as unsettling landscapes of phenomenal experience. Through case studies providing multifaceted viewpoints – first-person, second-person, and third-person perspectives – we argue that clinical narratives are valuable resources for a transepistemic study of consciousness. By examining clinical conundrums such as somatic and nihilistic delusions, and anosognosia, we highlight the importance of detailed phenomenological, hermeneutic, and narrative accounts while acknowledging the significance of subpersonal, mechanistic models from cognitive and affective neuroscience. The tradition embodies the tension between the diverse perspectives in the field of mental health, including stories that directly challenge the medical discourse. However, the narrative arts can act as mediators or even peacemakers, by fostering an understanding between the opposing views. Stories are open to multiple interpretations, preserving the diversity of discourses on human meaning and avoiding the imposition of monolithic versions of our humanness.

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10.1080/09515089.2024.2366417

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La creatividad en la educación artística

Rosa Aurora Chávez

IN THIS WORK WE TAKE UP THE IDEA OF CREATIVITY AND THE PROCESS THAT UNDERLIES IT. IN A SAME WAY IT GETS CLOSE TO THE CREATIVE BEHAVIOUR, ITS DEVELOPMENT, ITS STIMULATION AND ITS EVALUATION. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESSES AND CREATIVITY IS ALSO CONSIDERED. EMPHASIZING THAT THE QUEST FOR ART TEACHERS IS BASED ON UNDERSTANDING THE CREATIVE POTENTIAL THAT STUDENTS HAVE GOT AND INCORPORATE TECHNIQUES SO THEY CAN DEVELOP THIS POTENTIAL, EXPLORE THEIR EXCITATIONS AND LEARN HOW TO TRANSFORM THEIR FEELINGS, IDEAS AND EXPERIENCES ON AESTHETIC PRODUCTS. PARADOXICALLY, DEVELOPMENT OF CREATIVITY ON STUDENTS BECOMES A CHALLENGE TO TEACHERS' CREATIVITY.

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Neurobiología de la creatividad: resultados preliminares de un estudio de activación cerebral

Salud Mental (2004)

Rosa Aurora Chávez Ariel Graff‐Guerrero Juan Carlos Garcı́a-Reyna Vı́ctor Vaugier Carlos Cruz-Fuentes

SUMMARY Creativity is important for individuals and for societies. The study of creativity from a neurobiological perspective is still a challenge for researchers. The creative process involves the integration of several mental functions, but also involves all the components of life experience. Chavez proposed that creativity is the process of generating something, transforming or transcending the existing. This process comprises three overlapping phases: (A) Association-integration: the individual makes associations between elements of the external world and the own subjectivity, becoming aware of these associations. The person continues to incorporate new elements from external reality and from the interior world, connecting ideas, images, sensations, perceptions, emotions; sometimes with periods of apparent latency. During this phase a perceptual, sensorial, cognitive and affective integration occurs. Different levels of consciousness are involved in this phase. (B) Elaboration: the person works with the association building a product, using her or his particular talents and abilities. This phase is conscious and involves volition. (C) Communication: by sharing the work the associations are transmitted and reproduced in others, as well as the sensorial and emotional experience. This leads the audience to produce new associations in themselves. Communication ends the process at the time that new creative processes begin in others. Reality is, in consequence, understood from a new perspective. Arieti proposed that creativity is associated with an increase in the temporo-occipito-parietal cortexes functioning; and also with an increase of the interactions between these areas and the prefrontal cortex, independently from the stimuli intensity; keeping the mentioned areas, a disposition to activation. Martindale found electroencephalographic differences in highly creative individuals. These differences comprised greater activity in right parieto-temporal areas; higher alpha activity during analogs of inspiration; and a greater tendency to present physiological over-response. Miller and colleagues reported three cases of patients who began artistic production after the onset of fronto-temporal dementia. These patients increased their artistic productivity during the early and middle stages of the disease. The authors suggest that a decrease in the anterior temporal function could be associated with an increase of the artistic activity because the posterior visual cortex becomes disinhibited, which could cause intense visual experiences and non filtered memories. Carlsson and cols. found that during the performance of a creative task highly creative individuals display higher cerebral blood flow in right and left frontal regions when compared with low creative individuals. Bekhtereva and colleagues found that greater creative achievement is associated to higher synchronization values in anterior cortical areas; it is also associated to an increase in the general coherence in right and left frontal lobes; and to a higher cerebral blood flow in Brodmann areas 8-11 and 44-47. Objective The aim of the present research was to correlate the figural and verbal creativity indexes (obtained with a valid and reliable creativity measure such as the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking) with the cerebral blood flow, using Single Photon Emission Computerized Tomography (SPECT) and statistical parametric mapping. Method Healthy individuals were recruited from a cohort of 100 adults; 40% of the cohort was integrated by artists, researchers, writers and/or composers with substantial achievement, in the peak of their careers and having been awarded with national and international prizes in their fields. These individuals were members of the National System of Researchers, the National System of Creators or were awarded as Young Creators. These systems provide economic support to the most productive scientists and artists, and in order to remain in these systems, members have to prove having a relevant and constant production in their fields. The cohort also recruited healthy control individuals from general population and psychiatric out-patients. The twelve individuals invited to participate in the brain images project were selected on behalf of their creativity index. The twelve subjects did not present medical, neurological, or psychiatric disorders, they were not under medication, and did not consume any psychoactive

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On the neurobiology of the creative process

PsycEXTRA Dataset (2004)

Rosa Aurora Chávez

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Honestidad y creatividad en la investigación clínica. Bioética de dos visiones, en un solo momento

Ciencia e Investigación Medico Estudiantil Latinoamericana (2001)

Víctor Hugo Córdova Rosa Aurora Chávez C. Jiménez

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Imagery As a Core Process in the Creativity of Successful and Awarded Artists and Scientists and Its Neurobiological Correlates

Frontiers in Psychology (2016)

Rosa Aurora Chávez

This perspective paper presents an integration of neuroimaging and phenomenological data obtained in a sample that included highly creative, internationally awarded scientists and/or artists. The cerebral blood flow was evaluated during the performance of standardized creativity tasks from the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking Verbal Form. The phenomenological data comprised both, their experiences and processes related to their creative careers and their experiences during the performance of the creative thinking tasks during the acquisition of the brain imaging data. Highly creative individuals presented a significantly higher activation of areas involved in motor imagery and described that their creative process is frequently triggered by the spontaneous and often surprising emergence of what is being named here as primordial imagery: a sudden, multimodal, multiintegrative, highly condensed representation that is germinative, unleashing insight and multiple associations and possibilities for meaning. As evidenced in creativity, imagery is a process through which we perceive our own minds, allowing us further symbolization and access to our thoughts, possibly facilitating neural pathways.

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10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00351

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La creatividad y el relato en los diferentes tipos de delirios crónicos: un estudio descriptivo

Salud Mental (2005)

Nashyiela Loa Rosa Aurora Chávez Ma. del Carmen Lara

Introduccion Los delirios son creencias irreales e irreductibles a la logica y que no son compartidas por la cultura (APA). Henri Ey los clasifica en dos grandes grupos: agudos y cronicos. En este trabajo nos enfocaremos en los delirios cronicos, los cuales a su vez se dividen de acuerdo con diferentes caracteristicas fenomenologicas en paranoicos, fantasticos y esquizofrenicos. Los delirios pueden ser expresados verbalmente mediante un relato. Siegel define el termino ingles narrative (relato) como una descripcion que integra experiencias internas y externas y contrasta historias que dan coherencia y comprension al individuo en el mundo y en el tiempo. Para Ramos, en el relato existe una serie de elementos: tema, orden, estructura, y una voz narradora identificable. Proponemos que en este proceso interviene la creatividad. Chavez define la creatividad como una cualidad que trasciende al ser humano, por medio de la cual se produce algo nuevo transformando lo ya existente. Se lleva a acabo en tres fases: asociacion-integracion, elaboracion y comunicacion, las cuales se superponen entre si. El objetivo de este estudio es describir el relato de los diferentes tipos de delirios, y el desempeno en la Prueba de Torrance de Pensamiento Creativo(TTCT) grafica, de los pacientes con delirios cronicos. Material y metodo Se trata de un estudio descriptivo en el que se analizo el relato de cada uno de los delirios descritos, recurriendo a una tabla de frecuencias de transformaciones linguisticas (TL), y a los rubros que evaluan el contenido del pensamiento y las alteraciones cognitivo verbales de la escala de sintomas positivos y negativos de la esquizofrenia (PANSS). Se evaluo el pensamiento creativo en cada uno de los pacientes con delirios mediante la TTCT grafica. Se evaluaron en total tres pacientes del Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria, cada uno con un distinto tipo de delirio cronico de acuerdo a la clasificacion de Ey. Resultados En el caso del delirio paranoico existe el numero menor de TL y un mayor puntaje de severidad del PANSS en delirio y suspicacia, y en la TTCT grafica destaca la elaboracion por un puntaje por arriba del percentil 85, y con un puntaje por abajo del percentil 25 la fluidez y la originalidad. En el delirio fantastico se encontraron algunas TL: 5 metaforas y 3 neologismos. En el PANSS se encontro mayor severidad en los reactivos de delirio, suspicacia y contenido inusual. En la TTCT grafica se encontro un puntaje por arriba del percentil 85 en elaboracion y abstraccion, destacando tambien la articulacion del contexto y la extension de los limites. Finalmente, a nivel del delirio esquizofrenico se encontraron la mayor parte de TL: descarrilamiento que llegaba a la incoherencia y asociacion por asonancia. En la severidad de los reactivos del PANSS se encontro mayor puntaje en desorganizacion conceptual. En la TTCT grafica se encontraron dimensiones por debajo del percentil 25 en fluidez, originalidad, elaboracion y resistencia al cierre prematuro.. En la narracion intervienen diferentes procesos cognitivos que se alteran durante la psicosis, en los que el sujeto confunde su mundo externo e interno, construyendo un nuevo mundo plasmado en el delirio, y donde el proceso creativo interviene en diferentes formas. Podemos generar la hipotesis de que algunas caracteristicas en el relato de los delirios podrian asociarse con determinadas dimensiones del pensamiento creativo, lo cual pudiera tener implicaciones en el proceso de rehabilitacion de estos pacientes. Sin embargo, estas hipotesis deberan ser probadas en posteriores estudios.

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