(Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience. Vol. 22.) Edited by Julien Bogousslavsky and Michael G. Hennerici. 240 pp., illustrated. Basel, Switzerland, Karger, 2007. $112. ISBN 978-3-8055-8265-0.
This is the second volume in a series that explores the borderlandbetween neurology and art. The rationale behind the existenceof the collection is that when disease of the nervous system— and especially of the brain — seizes persons whoare extraordinarily creative, the results are worthy of particularattention. The authors of the 14 essays in this volume discusspoets, novelists, painters, and film directors who had someform of nervous affliction. Among them are Heinrich Heine, whoprobably had syphilis, Charles Baudelaire, who had aphasia,and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who may have had symptoms of Tourette's. . . [Full Text of this Article]
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