The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain

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 ...

By Alice W. Flaherty
Hardcover: 307 pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin; 1st edition (January 6, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0618230653
ISBN-13: 978-0618230655
Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 1.2 x 8.2 inches
Amazon Rank: 1947762
Format: PDF Text TXT ebook

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I developed, later in life and seemingly overnight, hypergraphia and the onset of the compulsion was one of the most frightening feelings of my life. In an attempt to find out why I was going crazy, and why I was churning out 200+ pages per day writi

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