Neurological disorders in famous artists
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 suc...
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| Format: | Book/Monograph |
| Language: | English |
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Basel New York
Karger
2005
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| Series: | Frontiers of neurology and neuroscience
v. 19 |
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Frontiers of neurology and neuroscience (v. 19)
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| Volumes / Articles: | Show Volumes / Articles. |
| Online Access: | Aggregator, Volltext: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=289307
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| Author Notes: | volume editors, J. Bogousslavsky, F. Boller |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; Guillaume Apollinaire, the Lover Assassinated; Guy 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 DiseaseMajor 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; Author Index; Subject Index