Martin Hollis
Neuropsychopharmacology, an interdisciplinary field of study connected to basic neuroscience and psychopharmacology of how medications affect the mind, is the study of the brain pathways that pharmaceuticals work upon to alter behavior. It entails researching the mechanisms of neuropathology, the pharmacodynamics of medication action, mental illness, and states of consciousness. Cognition and emotion, the two main mental processes that combine to generate psychological processes, are both related to creativity. Almost all forms of creativity are primarily motivated by emotion, sometimes inadvertently. There is some research on the connection between creativity and cognition, but there are few on the neurological underpinnings of how emotions affect creativity.