5th July 2015 -
Artists have been found to have a greatly reduced risk of Parkinson's Disease that is way
below that known for any other occupation.
These new results are consistent with those famous people known to have had Parkinson's
Disease. Of those, the only famous artist was the Spanish artist Salvador Dalí (1904-1989).
Even then, his diagnosis is dubious because his near-senile wife had allegedly been giving
him a dangerous cocktail of unprescribed medicines that damaged his nervous system.
A reduced risk of Parkinson's Disease was found for
men with an artistic occupation late in life that was
only 14% of normal. However, being an artist as a
first occupation made the likelihood of developing
Parkinson's Disease far more likely than that but at
72% still less likely than normal. Conventional
occupations showed no increased likelihood of
Parkinson's Disease apart from farming, in which
Parkinson's Disease was 2.7 times more likely, most
probably because of pesticide use.
Although artistic occupations late in life are associated with a greatly reduced risk of
developing Parkinson's Disease it is probable that because higher dopamine levels are
required for visual creativity, that people whose dopamine levels are low, as they are in
Parkinson's Disease, would be less inclined to be artistic visually.
Reference : Journal of Neurology [2015] Jul 3 [Epub ahead of print] (C.A.Haaxma, G.F.
Borm, D.van der Linden, A.C.Kappelle, B.R.Bloem)
Complete abstract : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26138540
http://www.viartis.net/parkinsons.disease/news/150705.pdf
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