Alice Weaver Flaherty je americká autorka, ktorá skúma fascinujúce prepojenie medzi mozgom a kreativitou. Jej práca sa ponára do neurologických základov tvorivého procesu a snaží sa osvetliť, ako náš mozog podporuje umelecké a intelektuálne inovácie. Flaherty píše naprieč žánrami, od vedeckých prác po humorné eseje, a ponúka tak čitateľom jedinečný pohľad na túto komplexnú oblasť. Prostredníctvom svojho písania približuje zložité vedecké koncepty širokému publiku.
A quick-reference guide to the diagnosis and management of neurologic diseases. It presents specific management recommendations in an outline format and includes protocols, step-by-step tests and procedures, and treatment algorithms. It also includes material from related disciplines such as general medicine, cardiology, psychiatry, and radiology.
Why is it that some writers struggle for months to come up with the perfect sentence or phrase while others, hunched over a keyboard deep into the night, seem unable to stop writing? In The Midnight Disease, neurologist Alice W. Flaherty explores the mysteries of literary the drive to write, what sparks it, and what extinguishes it. She draws on intriguing examples from medical case studies and from the lives of writers, from Franz Kafka to Anne Lamott, from Sylvia Plath to Stephen King. Flaherty, who herself has grappled with episodes of compulsive writing and block, also offers a compelling personal account of her own experiences with these conditions.