This well-established international series examines major areas of basic and clinical research within neuroscience, as well as emerging and promising subfields. This volume on the neurosciences, neurology, and literature vividly shows how science and the humanities can come together --- and have come together in the past. Its sections provide a new, broad look at these interactions, which have received surprisingly little attention in the past. Experts in the field cover literature as a window to neurological and scientific zeitgeists, theories of brain and mind in literature, famous authors and their suspected neurological disorders, and how neurological disorders and treatments have been described in literature. In addition, a myriad of other topics are covered, including some on famous authors whose important connections to the neurosciences have been overlooked (e.g., Roget, of Thesaurus fame), famous neuroscientists who should also be associated with literature, and some overlooked scientific and medical men who helped others produce great literary works (e,g., Bram Stoker's Dracula). There has not been a volume with this coverage in the past, and the connections it provides should prove fascinating to individuals in science, medicine, history, literature, and various other disciplines.
This well-established international series examines major areas of basic and clinical research within neuroscience, as well as emerging and promising subfields. This volume on the neurosciences, neurology, and literature vividly shows how science and the humanities can come together --- and have come together in the past. Its sections provide a new, broad look at these interactions, which have received surprisingly little attention in the past. Experts in the field cover literature as a window to neurological and scientific zeitgeists, theories of brain and mind in literature, famous authors and their suspected neurological disorders, and how neurological disorders and treatments have been described in literature. In addition, a myriad of other topics are covered, including some on famous authors whose important connections to the neurosciences have been overlooked (e.g., Roget, of Thesaurus fame), famous neuroscientists who should also be associated with literature, and some overlooked scientific and medical men who helped others produce great literary works (e,g., Bram Stoker's Dracula). There has not been a volume with this coverage in the past, and the connections it provides should prove fascinating to individuals in science, medicine, history, literature, and various other disciplines.
Brings together cutting-edge research on literature, neurology and neuroscience and their history and modern perspectives
Contents include:
Shakespeare and Neurology
The Overlooked Literary Path to Electrophysiology: Philosophical
Dialogues, Novels, and Travel Books
Sheridan Le Fanu and the Scientific Millieu of 19th-Century
Europe
Oscar Wilde and the Brain Cell
Forgetting the Madeleine: Proust and the Neurosciences
Charcot, La Salpêtrière and Hysteria as Represented in European
Literature
Willie Kühne, Optography, and Optograms as Represented in
Literature
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in literature: Sylvia Plath's The
Bell Jar
Greco-Roman Poetry and the Nervous System
Lord Byron’s Physician: John William Polidori on Somnambulism
Phrenology in Victorian Literature
François Boller, M.D., Ph.D. has been co-Series Editor of the
Handbook of Clinical Neurology since 2002. He.is a board-certified
neurologist currently Professor of Neurology at the George
Washington University Medical School (GW) in Washington, DC. He was
born in Switzerland and educated in Italy where he obtained a
Medical Degree at the University of Pisa. After specializing in
Neurology at the University of Milan, Dr. Boller spent several
years at the Boston VA and Boston University Medical School,
including a fellowship under the direction of Dr. Norman Geschwind.
He obtained a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Case Western
Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio where he was in charge of
Neuroscience teaching at the Medical School and was nominated
Teacher of the Year. In 1983, Dr. Boller became Professor of
Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh where he
founded and directed one of the first NIH funded Alzheimer Disease
Research Centers in the country. In 1989, he was put in charge of a
Paris-based INSERM Unit dedicated to the neuropsychology and
neurobiology of cerebral aging. He returned to the United States
and joined the NIH in 2005, before coming to GW in July 2014.
Dr. Boller’s initial area of interest was aphasia and related
disorders; he later became primarily interested in cognitive
disorders and dementia with emphasis on the correlates of cognitive
disorders with pathology, neurophysiology and imaging. He was one
of the first to study the relation between Parkinson and Alzheimer
disease, two processes that were thought to be unrelated. His
current area of interest is Alzheimer’s disease and related
disorders with emphasis on the early and late stages of the
disease. He is also interested in the history of Neurosciences and
is Past President of the International Society for the History of
Neurosciences. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the European
Journal of Neurology, the official Journal of the European
Federation of Neurological Societies (now European Academy of
Neurology). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and
a member of the American Neurological Association. In addition, he
has chaired Committees within the International Neuropsychological
Society, the International Neuropsychology Symposium, and the World
Federation of Neurology (WFN). He has authored over 200 papers and
books including the Handbook of Neuropsychology (Elsevier).
"...many of the chapters are immensely readable and enjoyable, and others provide excellent references for further reading or for citation in medical writing." --Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology
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