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The painful muse: migrainous artistic archetypes from visual cortex

Authors: Marco Aguggia, Enrico Grassi

Published in: Neurological Sciences | Special Issue 1/2014

Abstract

Neurological diseases which constituted traditionally obstacles to artistic creation can, in the case of migraine, be transformed by the artists into a source of inspiration and artistic production. These phenomena represent a chapter of a broader embryonic neurobiology of painting.

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Title: The painful muse: migrainous artistic archetypes from visual cortex
Authors: Marco Aguggia
Enrico Grassi
Publication date: 01-05-2014
Publisher: Springer Milan
Published in: Neurological Sciences / Issue Special Issue 1/2014
Print ISSN: 1590-1874
Electronic ISSN: 1590-3478
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-014-1773-x

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