The Fine Arts, Neurology, and Neuroscience

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Contributors

Preface

Recommended Additional Readings

PART 1: EARLY ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE NEUROSCIENCES

Chapter 1. Vesalius and the emergence of veridical representation in Renaissance anatomy

Abstract

1 A new vision of anatomy

2 Revival of classical knowledge: Art and anatomy

3 The concept of original source: A textual prelude to the human cadaver

4 Seeing and recording the invisible: Rete mirabile

5 Ventricles: From function to structure: Circles to cavities

6 The role of illustrations

7 The need for illustration: Vesalius

8 Conclusions

References

Chapter 2. Medieval and Renaissance anatomists: The printing and unauthorized copying of illustrations, and the dissemination of ideas

Abstract

1 Origins of Anatomical Illustration

2 Andreas Vesalii

3 Vesalian Compendia: Plagiarists, Imitators, and Disseminators

4 Conclusion

Acknowledgment

References

Chapter 3. Anna Morandi's Wax Self-Portrait with Brain

Abstract

1 The context

2 The anatomist

3 Brain power

4 The crankling brain

5 Conclusion

References

Chapter 4. David Ferrier: Brain drawings and brain maps

Abstract

1 Background

2 Alexander Ecker

3 John Galton

4 Ernest Waterlow

5 The Nature of Illustrations

6 The Nature of Ferrier’s Illustrations

7 Concluding Remarks

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 5. Neura, nerves, nerve fibers, neurofibrils, microtubules: Multidimensional routes of pain, pleasure, and voluntary action in images across the ages

Abstract

1 Our Subject

2 In the Beginning: Routes of Life Power Across the Body

3 Neura: Pathways of Sensation and Will

4 Picturing Things as they Really Are: Nerves in the Renaissance

5 Imagining the Invisible: Pipes within Nerves

6 Turning the Invisible into Visible: Nerve Fibers

7 Lines for Electricity: Neurofibrils

8 Microtubules: The Substratum of Consciousness?

9 Concluding Words

References

PART 2: NEUROSCIENTISTS WITH ARTISTIC TALENTS AND ARTISTS ON THE NEUROSCIENCES

Chapter 6. John Bell (1763–1820): Brother artist and anatomist

Abstract

1 Introduction

2 The Bell Family

3 John Bell, the Surgeon

4 War Wounds

5 The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

6 From 1800 John Bell the Anatomist Now Concentrates on Clinical Surgery and on his Writing

7 The Final Years

8 Charles Bell Remembers his Brother John

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 7. Jean-Martin Charcot and art: Relationship of the “founder of neurology” with various aspects of art

Abstract

1 Charcot’s neurological career

2 Charcot’s artistic skills

3 Charcot’s taste in art

4 Art in Charcot’s medical practice

References

Chapter 8. Cajal and the discovery of a new artistic world: The neuronal forest

Abstract

1 Introduction

2 The Golgi Method

3 Cajal Arrives on the Scene

4 Drawing of Neural Elements: When Science was Art

5 Scientific “Art” and Skepticism

6 Interpretation of the Microscopic World

7 The Brain as a Neuronal Forest

Acknowledgments

Further Reading

References

PART 3: SOME GREAT ARTISTS AND THEIR NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS

Chapter 9. The lead-poisoned genius: Saturnism in famous artists across five centuries

Abstract

1 Preindustrial historical perspective of extraction and lead poisoning

2 Poisoned painters

3 Musician connections

4 Conclusions

References

Chapter 10. Frida Kahlo’s neurological deficits and her art

Abstract

1 Introduction

2 Conclusion

References

Chapter 11. Neurological diseases in famous painters

Abstract

1 Stroke

2 Dementia

3 General Conclusions

References

Index

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