Neurology of the arts : painting, music, literature /
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Imperial College Press,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- 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 teh 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 actiology of Dostoyevsky's epilepsy / Halfdan Kierulf
- Neurology and Sherlock Holmes / E. Wayne Massey
- James Joyce in 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.