| Description |
xix, 402 p. : ill., music. |
| Note |
" ... also derived from a symposium held at the Medical Society of London."--P. ix. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The evolutionary basis of meaning in music : some neurological and neuroscientific implications / Ian Cross -- Historical perspectives on the study of music in neurology / Julene K. Johnson, Amy B. Graziano, Jacky Hayward -- The creative brain : fundamental features, associated conditions and unifying neural mechanisms / Stavia Blunt -- The neurologist in the concert hall and the musician at the bedside / George K. York III -- The human nervous system-- a clavichord? On the use of metaphors in the history of modern neurology / Frank Stahnisch -- The musician's brain as a model for adaptive and maladaptive plasticity / Eckart Altenmuller -- Temporal co-ordination of the two hands in playing the violin / Mario Wiesendanger -- Music as a calibrator of time : auditory processing / Steve Jones -- Musical reading and writing / John Brust -- Fools at musick : Thomas Willis (1621-1675) on congenital amusia / Marjorie Lorch -- Musicogenic epilepsy / Jock Murray -- Musical hallucinations / Stefan Evers -- Migraine aura as source of artistic inspiration in the German "dark chanteuse" Alwa Glebe ; Musical palinacousis as an aura symptom in persistent aura without infarction / Klaus Podoll -- Coloured-hearing synaesthesia in nineteenth-century Italy / Lorenzo Lorusso, Alessandro Porro -- Crossed wires : synaesthetic responses to music / Ivan Moseley -- The recognition of music in frontotemporal lobar degeneration / Julene K. Johnson -- Maurice Ravel and the music of the brain / Ola Selnes -- Cerebrovascular disorders of Baroque composers / Tomislav Breitenfeld, Darko Breitenfeld, Vida Demarin -- From sensibility to madness in nineteenth-century Romanticism : neurosyphilis in German-speaking composers / Hansjorg Bazner, Michael Hennerici -- Singing : when it helps / Gottfried Schlaug -- Singing improves word production in patients with aphasia / Geir Olve Skeie, Torun Einbu, Johan Aarli -- Nerve compression syndromes in musicians : a surgeon's view / Ian Winspur -- Focal hand dystonia affecting musicians / Katherine Butler. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Music -- Physiological aspects -- Congresses.
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Music -- Psychological aspects -- Congresses.
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Musical ability -- Congresses.
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Neurology -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Rose, F. Clifford (Frank Clifford)
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ProQuest (Firm)
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Mansell Bequest Symposium (2007 : Medical Society of London)
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| ISBN |
1848162685 |
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9781848162686 |
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9781848162693 (electronic bk.) |
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