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Creativity in the Context of Neurologic Illness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Bruce L. Miller
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Creativity in the context of neurologic illness is extremely complicated, but fascinating and inspiring to those who study it. Artistic people with degenerative diseases often are still compelled to engage in their creative talents after developing a neurologic illness. In some cases, people with these disorders even develop new abilities that did not exist prior to onset of illness. Those who study creativity and dementia must first address a fundamental neurologic question: Where in this elegant structure does the ability to produce art come from?

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Expert Roundtable Supplement
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CNS Spectrums , Volume 13 , Issue S2: Creativity and Dementia: Emerging Diagnostic and Treatment Methods for Alzheimer's Disease , February 2008 , pp. 7 - 9
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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