基本説明
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 Van Gogh, Ravel, Poe, Kant, Haydn and many more are diagnosed in retrospect and treatment options according to modern medical technologies are discussed.
Full Description
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. (A Karger ""Publishing Highlights 1890-2015"" title.)
Contents
Preface; Guillaume Apollinaire, the Lover Assassinated: Bogousslavsky, J.; Guy de Maupassant and Friedrich Nietzsche. A Comparison of Two Cases of 19th-Century General Paresis: Hayden, D.; The One-Man Band of Pain. Alphonse Daudet and His Painful Experience of Tabes dorsalis: Dieguez, S.; Bogousslavsky, J.; Gustave Flaubert's Hidden Sickness: Jallon, P.; Jallon, H.; Edgar Allan Poe: Substance Abuse versus Epilepsy: Bazil, C.W.; Dostoevsky and Epilepsy: An Attempt to Look Through the Frame: Rossetti, A.O.; Bogousslavsky, J.; Immanuel Kant: Evolution from a Personality 'Disorder' to a Dementia: Guard, O.; Boller, F.; Valery Larbaud: Boller, F.; Alajouanine's Painter: Paul-Elie Gernez: Boller, F.; Carolus Horn - When the Images in the Brain Decay. Evidence of Backward-Development of Visual and Cognitive Functions in Alzheimer's Disease: Maurer, K.; Prvulovic, D.; Major Depression and Stroke in Caspar David Friedrich: Dahlenburg, B.; Spitzer, C.; Understanding Van Gogh's Night; Bipolar Disorder: Carota, A.; Iaria, G.; Berney, A.; Bogousslavsky, J.; The Terminal Illness and Last Compositions of Maurice Ravel: Baeck, E.; The Decay and Death of Modest Musorgsky: Baeck, E.; Georg Friedrich Handel's Strokes: Bazner, H.; Hennerici, M.; The Subcortical Vascular Encephalopathy of Joseph Haydn - Pathographic Illustration of the Syndrome: Bazner, H.; Hennerici, M.; Music and the Brain: Gershwin and Shebalin: Ruiz, E.; Montanes, P.; Robert Schumann's Focal Dystonia: Altenmuller, E.; Author Index; Subject Index.
