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Sara Zeggio
PhD candidate at Radboud University Medical Center (Netherlands) researching creativity, narrative medicine and Parkinson's disease.
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Oct 5, 2026
Art, creativity and Parkinson's: Art with a Heart
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Anthony ZahraHOST
And like you say, so in 2015, she and her team published a paper called Neuropsychological Insights into Creativity in People With Parkinson's Disease.
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7:15Sara ZeggioGUEST
In that specific study, we actually started because we heard, um, that a lot of people were noticing changes in creativity, but they were rarely asked, uh, about that.
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7:26Sara ZeggioGUEST
So we always have maybe a person with Parkinson's, "Yeah, I actually perceived, uh, um, uh, yeah, an increase in creativity after diagnosis." Some people say, "Yeah, I perceived a decrease," but we didn't really know why.
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7:38Sara ZeggioGUEST
So the idea is that we asked, uh, about 360 people with Parkinson's, I think, about their personality, lifestyle, medication, uh, and how they, um, their creativity changed over time, uh, from before symptoms onset to that day that they were doing the questionnaire.
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8:06Sara ZeggioGUEST
And then when we looked a little bit closer, uh, we saw that the, that number actually changed and rose to about seven out of 10 people.

Anthony ZahraHOST
And actually, it's a great question to ask someone, how, y- you know, do you feel like your creativity has changed?