Mad but glad.

The career of award winning pianist, Nick Van Bloss, was destroyed in mid-performance by his Tourette's Syndrome. Struck by the illness as a child, music had been his salvation but one day mid-performance it returned and when it did it changed his life. Nick needs to know how he became who he is - Tourette's wrecked his career, but did it also create it? The spectre of the ''mad-genius'' has gripped our imagination for years, but is it real? Paul Howard-Jones at the University of Exeter is examining the brain at the point of creativity under MRI conditions - when he looks at pictures of Nick's brain it is clear that his brain finds it hard to switch off its creative urges. Matt Savage is another talented musician - he is autistic. Nick and Matt meet and discuss what music means to both of them. Alice Flaherty discusses her hypergraphia and Greg Rice his composing. Nick and Greg meet; the relationship of dopamine to their conditions is discussed. Jordan B. Peterson has a theory that creative people suffer from low latent inhibition, an inability to filter the world, this theory makes sense to Nick. Nick then meets schizophrenic artist David Waldorf and classical composer Tobias Picker who also has Tourette's. Finally, Oliver Sacks meets Nick and discusses creativity and Tourette's, further convincing him that his Tourette's is most likely the trigger for his creativity.