Kurt Cobains genius attributed to ADHD
| 04 February 2010
An Irish professor has said that many of the world's geniuses were helped by having Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
And Trinity's professor Michael Fitzgerald says Kurt Cobain was one of them.
Professor Fitzgerald says the late Nirvana singer owed his success to ‘risk taking’ genes that play a role in ADHD.
Speaking at a the annual meeting of Trinity's Faculty of Academic Psychiatry, Fitzgerald said sufferers often have a capacity to hyper-focus on a narrow area that is of particular interest to them - in Cobain’s case writing music.
However he said ADHD does not always a guarantee of genius, but in the right circumstances it can be a fertiliser, helping to generate a seed of potential.
Other famous figures the professor believes benefitted from the effects of ADHD include Lord Byron, Oscar Wilde, Pablo Picasso and Sir Walter Raleigh.
The disorder is one of the most common behavioural problems in children, causing them to be restless, impulsive and inattentive.
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