Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists - Part 1
Fascinating insights into the relationship between brain disease and creativityThe study of how a neurological disorder can change the artistic activity and behavior of creative people is a largely unexplored field. This publication looks closer at famous painters, writers, composers and philosophers of the 18th to the 20th centuries who suffered from neurological diseases such [...]
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Auteur : J.BOGOUSSLAVSKY , F.BOLLER
Editeur : Karger
Collection : Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience - 19
Date parution : 01/2005CB Google/Apple Pay, Chèque, Virement
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Fascinating insights into the relationship between brain disease and creativity
The study of how a neurological disorder can change the artistic activity and behavior of creative people is a largely unexplored field. This publication looks closer at famous painters, writers, composers and philosophers of the 18th to the 20th centuries who suffered from neurological diseases such as stroke, epilepsy, brain trauma and dementia. The diseases of Gershwin, Kant, Musorgsky, Poe, Ravel, Van Gogh and many more are diagnosed in retrospect and treatment options according to modern medical technologies are discussed.
Presenting fascinating insights into the relationship between brain disease and creativity in famous minds, this publication is highly recommended to neurologists, psychiatrists, physicians as well as to everybody interested in art, music and literature.
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Guillaume Apollinaire, the Lover AssassinatedGuy de Maupassant and Friedrich Nietzsche: A Comparison of Two Cases of 19th-Century General Paresis
The One-Man Band of Pain: Alphonse Daudet and His Painful Experience of Tabes dorsalis
Gustave Flaubert's Hidden Sickness
Edgar Allan Poe: Substance Abuse versus Epilepsy. Dostoevsky and Epilepsy: An Attempt to Look Through the Frame
Immanuel Kant: Evolution from a Personality 'Disorder' to a Dementia
Valery Larbaud
Alajouanine's Painter: Paul-Elie Gernez. Carolus Horn - When the Images in the Brain Decay: Evidence of Backward-Development of Visual and Cognitive Functions in Alzheimer's Disease
Major Depression and Stroke in Caspar David Friedrich
Understanding Van Gogh's Night: Bipolar Disorder
The Terminal Illness and Last Compositions of Maurice Ravel
The Decay and Death of Modest Musorgsky
Georg Friedrich Händel's Strokes
The Subcortical Vascular Encephalopathy of Joseph Haydn - Pathographic Illustration of the Syndrome
Music and the Brain: Gershwin and Shebalin
Robert Schumann's Focal Dystonia