The Creating Brain: The Neuroscience of Genius.THE CREATING BRAIN: The Neuroscience of Genius NANCY C. ANDREASEN Nancy Coover Andreasen is a noted American neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and neuropsychiatric researcher. She at present holds the Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. What do playwright Neil Simon Noun 1. Neil Simon - United States playwright noted for light comedies (born in 1927) Marvin Neil Simon, Simon , composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and mathematician Henri Poincare have in common? Each man is or was considered a creative genius, but their similarities may also lie in their neuroanatomy neuroanatomy /neu·ro·anat·o·my/ (-ah-nat´ah-me) anatomy of the nervous system. neu·ro·a·nat·o·my n. 1. The branch of anatomy that deals with the nervous system. 2. , writes Andreasen. An English-literature professor turned neuroscientist, she ponders the origins of creativity, the distinctions between it and high levels of intelligence or skill, and the physiological and psychological traits that research has suggested are common to creative people. For instance, she notes that creative people often report feeling as if they're invisible observers on the world. They seem to enter altered states of consciousness altered states of consciousness, n.pl the various states in which the mind can be aware but is not in its usual wakeful condition, such as during hypnosis, meditation, hall-ucination, trance, and the dream stage. See also alternative states of consciousness. when engaged in the creative process. Probably because of such tendencies in these people, many scientists hypothesize hy·poth·e·size v. hy·poth·e·sized, hy·poth·e·siz·ing, hy·poth·e·siz·es v.tr. To assert as a hypothesis. v.intr. To form a hypothesis. a close relationship between mental illness and creativity. The author examines the role of nature and nurture in forming people who create works of art and come up with original ideas in the sciences. Dana Press, 2005, 225 p., b&w photos, hardcover, $23.95. |
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