Title: The extremes of the bell curve : excellent and poor school performance and risk for severe mental disorders /
Authors: MacCabe, James.
Publisher: Psychology Press
Year: 2010
Subjects: Academic achievement Psychological aspects Sweden.; Mental illness Etiology.; Mental Disorders Sweden epidemiology.; Mentally Ill Persons Sweden.
Abstract: It has long been claimed that there is a strong association between high-intelligence, or exceptional creativity, and mental illness. In this book, James MacCabe investigates this claim, using evidence from Swedish population data. He finds evidence that children who achieve either exceptionally high, or very low grades at school, are at greater risk adult mental health disores.
Contents: Background -- Intelligence, creativity and mental illness -- Pre-morbid neuropsychological functioning in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: a review of the published literature -- Study of pre-morbid school performance in schizophrenia and other psychoses (SP₃) -- School performance and psychosis: unadjusted analyses -- Confounding and interaction: finding the model that best describes the data -- School performance in individual school subjects.