The neurobiology of painting
Subtitle: edited by F. Clifford Rose
Contributors: Rose, F. Clifford
Series: International review of Neurobiology -- v.74
Publisher: Elsevier - Academic Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: San Diego, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: Painting -- Psychology; Art -- Psychology; Medicine and art; Neurobiology; Art therapy; Painting
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

This volume presents a basis for the interaction of the brain and nervous system with painting, and a discussion of art from multiple facets. (from the cover)
Table of contents: title: Evolutionary neurobiology and art - C.U.M. Smith ; SECTION I - Visual Aspects : Perceptual portraits - The neuropsychology of visual art; conferring capacity; title: Vision, illusions, and reality; title: Localization in the visual brain ; SECTION II - Episodic disorders : Neurology, synaesthesia, and painting - Fainting in classical art - Migraine art in the internet: a study of 450 contemporary artists - Sarah Raphael's migraine with aura as inspiration for the foray of her work into abstraction - The visual of contemporary artists with epilepsy; SECTION III - Brain damage: Creativity in painting and style in brain-damaged artists - Artistic changes in alzheimer's disease; SECTION IV -Cerebrovasular disease: Stroke in painters - Visuospatial neglect in Lovis Corinth's self-portraits - Art, constructional apraxia and the brain; SECTION V - Genetic diseases: Neurogenetics in Art; title: A nai̋ve artist of St. Ives -Van Gogh's madness - Absinthe, the nervous system and painting ; SECTION VI - Neurologists as artists: Sir Charles Bell, KGH, FRS, FRSE (1774-1842) ; SECTION VII - Miscellaneous : Peg leg Frieda - The Deafness of Goya (1746-1828).