{"id":3032,"date":"2015-09-10T23:04:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T23:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=3032"},"modified":"2015-09-10T23:04:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T23:04:36","slug":"a-disease-that-allowed-torrents-of-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/10\/a-disease-that-allowed-torrents-of-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"A Disease That Allowed Torrents of Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/08\/health\/08brai.html?_r=0\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/brain_600_span.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Dr. Adams, who was also drawn to themes of repetition, painted one upright rectangular figure for each bar of \u201cBolero.\u201d The figures are arranged in an orderly manner like the music, countered by a zigzag winding scheme, Dr. Miller said. The transformation of sound to visual form is clear and structured. Height corresponds to volume, shape to note quality and color to pitch. The colors remain unified until the surprise key change in bar 326 that is marked with a run of orange and pink figures that herald the conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Ravel and Dr. Adams were in the early stages of a rare disease called FTD, or\u00a0<a title=\"In-depth reference and news articles about Pick's disease.\" href=\"http:\/\/health.nytimes.com\/health\/guides\/disease\/picks-disease\/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">frontotemporal dementia<\/a>, when they were working, Ravel on \u201cBolero\u201d and Dr. Adams on her painting of \u201cBolero,\u201d Dr. Miller said. The disease apparently altered circuits in their brains, changing the connections between the front and back parts and resulting in a torrent of creativity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe used to think dementias hit the brain diffusely,\u201d Dr. Miller said. \u201cNothing was anatomically specific. That is wrong. We now realize that when specific, dominant circuits are injured or disintegrate, they may release or disinhibit activity in other areas. In other words, if one part of the brain is compromised, another part can remodel and become stronger.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/08\/health\/08brai.html?_r=0\">New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Adams, who was also drawn to themes of repetition, painted one upright rectangular figure for each bar of \u201cBolero.\u201d The figures are arranged in an orderly manner like the music, countered by a zigzag winding scheme, Dr. Miller said. The transformation of sound to visual form is clear and structured. Height corresponds to volume, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-MU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3034,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions\/3034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}