Neurology of music / editor, F. Clifford Rose.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Rose, F. Clifford (Frank Clifford)

Conference Name:

Mansell Bequest Symposium (2007 : Medical Society of London)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Physiological aspects--Congresses.

Music.

Music--Psychological aspects--Congresses.

Musical ability--Congresses.

Musical ability.

Neurology--Congresses.

Neurology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Imperial College Press ; Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : Distributed by World Scientific, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first British book on neurology in music was published over 30 years ago. Edited by Drs Macdonald Critchley and R A Henson, it was entitled ""Music and the Brain"" (published by Wm Heinemann Medical Books), but all of its contributors are now either retired or deceased. Since then, there has been an increasing amount of research, and the present volume includes the most significant of these advances.The book begins with the evolutionary basis of meaning in music and continues with the historical perspectives, after which the human nervous system is compared to a clavichord, highlighting th

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 Altenmüller

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 / Hansjörg Bäzner, 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.

Notes:

" ... also derived from a symposium held at the Medical Society of London."--P. ix.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613143297

9781283143295

1283143291

9781848162693

1848162693

OCLC:

741492840