Flaherty, Alice W. <br/><br/>
The midnight disease  : the drive to write, writer's block, and the creative brain 
/ Alice W. Flaherty 
 - Boston  : Houghton Mifflin  , 2004. 
 - 307 p.  : ill.  ; 22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780618230655 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003051143 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Writer's block<br/>Authorship----Psychological aspects<br/>Authors----Mental health<br/>Creation (Literary, artistic etc.)
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN171.W74  / F58 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>808 FLA