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The midnight disease : the drive to write, writer's block, and the creative brain / Alice W. Flaherty

By:

Flaherty, Alice W

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin , 2004.Description: 307 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780618230655

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DDC classification:

808 FLA

LOC classification:

PN171.W74 F58 2004

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	808 FLA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		053830

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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