Title: Neurological disorders in famous artists /
Authors: Bogousslavsky, Julien; Boller, François
Publisher: Karger,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Nervous System Diseases; Famous Persons; Artists Diseases.; Nervous system Diseases
Abstract: Looks at famous painters, writers, composers and philosophers of the 18th to the 20th centuries who suffered from neurologic diseases such as stroke, epilepsy, brain trauma and dementia. The diseases of Van Gogh, Ravel, Poe, Kant, Haydn and many more are explored.
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.