Neurology of the arts : painting, music, literature
This book is the first attempt to provide a basis for the interaction of the brain and nervous system with painting, music and literature. The introduction deals with the problems of creativity and which parts of the brain are involved. Then an overview of art presents multiple facets, such as anatomy and the myths appearing in ancient descriptions of conditions such as polio and migraine. The neurological basis of painters like Goya and van Gogh is analysed. Other chapters in the section on art cover da Vinci's mechanics and the portrayal of epilepsy. The section on music concerns the parts of the brain linked to perception and memory, as well as people who cannot appreciate music, and the effect of music on intelligence and learning (the Mozart effect). The section on literature relates to Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Conan Doyle, James Joyce and the poetry of one of England's most famous neurologists, Henry Head
1 online resource (xiv, 438 pages) : illustrations
9781860945915, 9781860943683, 1860945910, 1860943683
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Introduction ; The cerebral localization of creativity / George K. York
Neural concept formation and art : Dante, Michelangelo, Wagner / Semir Zeki
Art ; The neurology of art : an overview / F. Clifford Rose
Galen and the artful symmetry of the brain / Julius Rocca
Leonardo da Vinci's mechanical art and the origin of modern neurology / David A. Steinberg
The art of Sir Charles Bell / Christopher Gardner-Thorpe
Normal and pathological gait as inspiration for the artist / Geneviève Aubert
Epilepsy in pictorial art / Bernt A. Engelsen
Music ; Brain mapping in musicians / Michael E. Charness & Gottfried Schlaug
The cerebral localisation of musical perception and musical memory / H. Platel, F. Eustache & J.-C. Baron
Musical instruments as metaphors in brain science : From René Descartes to John Hughlings Jackson / C.U.M. Smith
The music of madness : Franklin's armonica and the vulnerable nervous system / Stanley Finger & David A. Gallo
The Mozart effect / John R. Hughes & John J. Fino
The amusias / Jason Warren
Music and the brain : a musicologist's viewpoint / Paul Robertson
The convulsionary Samuel Johnson and the miaowing of Mozart / Milo Keynes
Literature ; The influence of Shakespeare on Charcot's neurological teaching / Christopher G. Goetz
Epilepsy in literature : writers' experiences and their reflection in literary works / Peter Wolf
The aetiology of Dostoyevsky's epilepsy / Halfdan Kierulf
Neurology and Sherlock Holmes / E. Wayne Massey
James Joyce in a clinical context / J.B. Lyons
Neurology in the Nordic sagas / Ragnar Stien
The poetry of Henry Head / Christopher Gardner-Thorpe
Silas Marner, George Eliot and catalepsy / F. Clifford Rose
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