Unique chapters provide new research and the latest theories on music and the brain, also disentangling historical facts from neuroscience myths
Franz Joseph Gall and Music: The Faculty and the Bump
Music, Neurology and Psychology in the 19th Century
Singing by Speechless (Aphasic) Children: Victorian Medical
Observations
Some Early Cases of Aphasia and the Capacity to Sing
Benjamin Franklin and his Glass Armonica: From Music as Therapeutic
to Pathological
Historical Perspectives on Music as a Cause of Disease
Stroke, Music and Creative Output: Alfred Schnittke and other
Composers
Hector Berlioz and His Vesuvius: An Analysis of Historical Evidence
from an Epileptological Perspective
Alexander Scriabin: His Chronic Right Hand Pain and its Impact on
his Piano Compositions
Frederick Delius: Controversies Regarding his Neurological Disorder
and its Impact on his Compositional Output
Robert Schumann in the Psychiatric Hospital at Endenich
Mozart at Play: The Limitations of Attributing the Etiology of
Genius to Tourette Syndrome and Mental Illness
Paul Wittgenstein's Right arm and his Phantom: The Saga of a Famous
Concert Pianist and his Amputation
Georg Friedrich Händel – A Case of Large Vessel Disease with
Complications in the 18th Century
Joseph Haydn's Encephalopathy: New Aspects
Organists and Organ Music Composers
Frédéric Chopin and his Neuropsychiatric Problems
Somnambulism in Verdi's Macbeth and Bellini's La Sonnambula: Opera,
Sleepwalking, and Medicine
Opera and Neuroscience
François Boller, M.D., Ph.D. has been co-Series Editor of the
Handbook of Clinical Neurology since 2002. He.is a board-certified
neurologist currently Professor of Neurology at the George
Washington University Medical School (GW) in Washington, DC. He was
born in Switzerland and educated in Italy where he obtained a
Medical Degree at the University of Pisa. After specializing in
Neurology at the University of Milan, Dr. Boller spent several
years at the Boston VA and Boston University Medical School,
including a fellowship under the direction of Dr. Norman Geschwind.
He obtained a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Case Western
Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio where he was in charge of
Neuroscience teaching at the Medical School and was nominated
Teacher of the Year. In 1983, Dr. Boller became Professor of
Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh where he
founded and directed one of the first NIH funded Alzheimer Disease
Research Centers in the country. In 1989, he was put in charge of a
Paris-based INSERM Unit dedicated to the neuropsychology and
neurobiology of cerebral aging. He returned to the United States
and joined the NIH in 2005, before coming to GW in July 2014.
Dr. Boller’s initial area of interest was aphasia and related
disorders; he later became primarily interested in cognitive
disorders and dementia with emphasis on the correlates of cognitive
disorders with pathology, neurophysiology and imaging. He was one
of the first to study the relation between Parkinson and Alzheimer
disease, two processes that were thought to be unrelated. His
current area of interest is Alzheimer’s disease and related
disorders with emphasis on the early and late stages of the
disease. He is also interested in the history of Neurosciences and
is Past President of the International Society for the History of
Neurosciences. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the European
Journal of Neurology, the official Journal of the European
Federation of Neurological Societies (now European Academy of
Neurology). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and
a member of the American Neurological Association. In addition, he
has chaired Committees within the International Neuropsychological
Society, the International Neuropsychology Symposium, and the World
Federation of Neurology (WFN). He has authored over 200 papers and
books including the Handbook of Neuropsychology (Elsevier).
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