num_pages: 307
description: Neurologist Flaherty (Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School) explains the psychological and neuroscientific knowledge about the process of writing for a lay audience. She discusses the temporal lobe's role in "abnormal hypergraphia," an increased desire to write. She then explores psychological and neurological explanations for writer's block. The roles of the cerebral cortex in writing ability, the limbic system in the drive to communication, and the temporal lob in metaphorical thinking are examined in subsequent chapters. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain
titlecomplete: The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain
genres: Biography, Science, Writing, Self Help, Reference, Mental Health, Psychology, Nonfiction, Neuroscience, Memoir
ratings_count: 776
publisher: Houghton Mifflin