This book is the first attempt to provide a basis for the interactionof the brain and nervous system with painting, music andliterature. The introduction deals with the problems of creativity andwhich parts of the brain are involved. Then an overview of artpresents the multiple facets, such as anatomy, and the myths appearingin ancient descriptions of conditions such as polio and migraine. Theneurological basis of painters like Goya and van Gogh isanalysed. Other chapters in the section on art cover da Vinci'smechanics and the portrayal of epilepsy. The section on music concernsthe parts of th
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
