Neurology of music
By: editor, F. Clifford Rose
Contributors: Mansell Bequest Symposium (2007 : Medical Society of London)
Publisher: Imperial College Press; Distributed by World Scientific
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; Singapore; Hackensack, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9781848162686
Subjects: Psychology; Music; Musical ability; Brain; Neurology; Congresses; Nervous System Diseases; Physiology
Notes: " ... also derived from a symposium held at the Medical Society of London."--P. ix.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The evolutionary basis of meaning in music : some neurological and neuroscientific implications / Ian Cross; title: Historical perspectives on the study of music in neurology / Julene K. Johnson, Amy B. Graziano, Jacky Hayward; title: The creative brain : fundamental features, associated conditions and unifying neural mechanisms / Stavia Blunt; title: The neurologist in the concert hall and the musician at the bedside / George K. York III; title: The human nervous system; title: a clavichord? On the use of metaphors in the history of modern neurology / Frank Stahnisch; title: The musician's brain as a model for adaptive and maladaptive plasticity / Eckart Altenmüller; title: Temporal co-ordination of the two hands in playing the violin / Mario Wiesendanger; title: Music as a calibrator of time : auditory processing / Steve Jones; title: Musical reading and writing / John Brust; title: Fools at musick : Thomas Willis (1621-1675) on congenital amusia / Marjorie Lorch; title: Musicogenic epilepsy / Jock Murray; title: Musical hallucinations / Stefan Evers; title: Migraine aura as source of artistic inspiration in the German "dark chanteuse" Alwa Glebe ; Musical palinacousis as an aura symptom in persistent aura without infarction / Klaus Podoll; title: Coloured-hearing synaesthesia in nineteenth-century Italy / Lorenzo Lorusso, Alessandro Porro; title: Crossed wires : synaesthetic responses to music / Ivan Moseley; title: The recognition of music in frontotemporal lobar degeneration / Julene K. Johnson; title: Maurice Ravel and the music of the brain / Ola Selnes; title: Cerebrovascular disorders of Baroque composers / Tomislav Breitenfeld, Darko Breitenfeld, Vida Demarin; title: From sensibility to madness in nineteenth-century Romanticism : neurosyphilis in German-speaking composers / Hansjörg Bäzner, Michael Hennerici; title: Singing : when it helps / Gottfried Schlaug; title: Singing improves word production in patients with aphasia / Geir Olve Skeie, Torun Einbu, Johan Aarli; title: Nerve compression syndromes in musicians : a surgeon's view / Ian Winspur; title: Focal hand dystonia affecting musicians / Katherine Butler.