Neurological disorders in famous artists.

Ed. by J. Bogousslavsky and F. Boller.

S. Karger, AG

2005

192 pages

$99.75

Hardcover

Frontiers of neurology and neuroscience; v.19

RC359

Neurologists describe the impact of various neurological diseases such as stroke, epilepsy, brain trauma, and dementia on selected famous writers, philosophers, painters, and composers through the lens of changes in their behavior and in their production. Among their cases are a comparison two cases of 19th-century general paresis in Guy de Maupassant and Friedrich Nietzsche, substance abuse versus epilepsy in Edgar Allan Poe, Immanuel Kant's evolution from a personality disorder to a dementia, bipolar disorder as an explanation of Van Gogh's night, the terminal illness and last compositions of Maurice Ravel, Georg Friedrich Handel's strokes, and music and brain in Gershwin and Shebalin.

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