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The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain
Flaherty, Alice W.
Published by Houghton Mifflin, 2004
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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)
About the Author: A. W. Flaherty is a neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who also teaches at Harvard Medical School. She is the author of The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer’s Block, and the Creative Brain. A. W. lives with her husband and twin daughters near Boston.
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Title: The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, ...
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
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