July 19, 2003
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HOW LANGUAGE STUNTS CREATIVITY
As the brain dies, new artistry is born
Brad Evenson
National Post
Dr. Miller made the link between dementia and creativity quite serendipitously in the mid-1990s.
"One of the tragic aspects of it is the beginning of creativity heralds the onset of disease," he says. "And as the disease progresses, we go through a period where someone perfects the artistic skill, so it steadily improves as the disease is progressing, and then the disease eventually overwhelms the process and eventually the creativity is gone."
More at http://www.nationalpost.com/national/story.html?id=C37BFDB8-575C-4551-9BAF-59175119F4A8
Comments (6)
Thanks for your comment on my poem...
my favorite poet had bipolar (coincidence?). walt whitman's leaves of grass screams the evidence of his disease, beautifully.
flowers for algernon...what a wonderful book! so so sad! i am lucky that my goddess had a copy so that i could have that experience!
Wow! Flowers for Algernon... I haven't read that since school!
yeah, aww i read flowers for algernon in 6th grade. we had to watch the movie too. aww poor charlie or whatever his name was.
Very fascinating article.. Thank you. I want to be a neurologist one day so that was very helpful for me! Thank you.
And everyone seems to love Flowers for Algernon.. it's on reading list.
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