The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain
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- Synopsis
- Neurologist Flaherty (Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School) explains the psychological and neuroscientific knowledge about the process of writing for a lay audience. She discusses the temporal lobe's role in "abnormal hypergraphia," an increased desire to write. She then explores psychological and neurological explanations for writer's block. The roles of the cerebral cortex in writing ability, the limbic system in the drive to communication, and the temporal lob in metaphorical thinking are examined in subsequent chapters. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
- Copyright:
- 2004
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 306 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780618230655
- Publisher:
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Date of Addition:
- 08/21/10
- Copyrighted By:
- Alice Weaver Flaherty
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Science, Health, Mind and Body, Psychology, Language Arts
- Submitted By:
- Deborah Kent Stein
- Proofread By:
- Ann Tate
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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