| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 192 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Frontiers of neurology and neuroscience ; v. 19 |
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Frontiers of neurology and neuroscience ; v. 19.
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| Contents |
Guillaume Apollinaire, the lover assassinated / Bogousslavsky, J. -- Guy de Maupassant and Friedrich Nietzsche / Hayden, D. -- The one-man band of pain / 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. [and others] -- The terminal illness and last compositions of Maurice Ravel / Baeck, E. -- The decay and death of Modest Musorgsky / Baeck, E. -- Georg Friedrich Händel's strokes / Bäzner, H., Hennerici, M -- The subcortical vascular encephalopathy of Joseph Haydn: pathographic illustration of the syndrome / Bäzner, H.; Hennerici, M. -- Music and the brain: Gershwin and Shebalin / Ruiz, E.; Montás, P. -- Robert Schumann's focal dystonia / Altenmüller, E |
| Summary |
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 Van Gogh, Ravel, Poe, Kant, Haydn 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Nervous system -- Diseases
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Artists -- Diseases
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Celebrities.
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Famous Persons
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Nervous System Diseases
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Nervous System (incl. Brain)
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MEDICAL -- Neurology.
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Celebrities
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Artists -- Diseases
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Nervous system -- Diseases
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Zenuwstelselaandoeningen.
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Bekende mensen.
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Doenças do sistema nervoso central.
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Artistas.
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Berühmte Persönlichkeit -- Nervensystem -- Krankheit -- Aufsatzsammlung.
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Nervensystem -- Krankheit -- Berühmte Persönlichkeit -- Aufsatzsammlung.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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Études de cas.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bogousslavsky, Julien
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Boller, François
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| ISBN |
1423713966 |
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9781423713968 |
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3805579144 |
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9783805579148 |
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9783318012064 |
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3318012068 |
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9783318014501 |
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3318014508 |
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9783805593311 |
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3805593317 |
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9783318063943 |
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3318063940 |
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