Torrent of Creativity in Elephant/s & Humans w rare brain disease
Joy Bringer
It is unbelievable AND true - enjoy for yourself as you wonder how is this possible...
Watch this elephant, rescued from abusive treatment in Burma, now paint an amazing self portrait. You'll be amazed at how his talent unfolds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He7Ge7Sogrk#
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Rare brain disease gave scientist "a torrent of creativity"
Posted by Cory Doctorow,
Dr Anne Adams was a Canadian scientist who died of a rare brain disease -- frontotemporal dementia -- which caused her to give up her lab and engage in an ecstasy of creative effort (and an agony of frustration as her mathematical ability slipped away), mostly centered on Ravel's Bolero, a composition he wrote in the throes of the same disease.
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Anne spent every day from 9 to 5 in her art studio, said Robert Adams, a retired mathematician. Early on, she painted architectural portraits of houses in the West Vancouver, British Columbia, neighborhood where they lived.In 1994, Dr. Adams became fascinated with the music of the composer Maurice Ravel, her husband recalled. At age 53, she painted “Unravelling Bolero a work that translated the famous musical score into visual form.
Unbeknown to her, Ravel also suffered from a brain disease whose symptoms were identical to those observed in Dr. Adams, said Dr. Bruce Miller, a neurologist and the director of the Memory and Aging Center at the University of California, San Francisco. Ravel composed “Bolero in 1928, when he was 53 and began showing signs of his illness with spelling errors in musical scores and letters...
Ravel and Dr. Adams were in the early stages of a rare disease called FTD, or frontotemporal dementia, when they were working, Ravel on “Bolero� and Dr. Adams on her painting of “Bolero‚� 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.
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July 2008
You really are a joy bringer, you know : ) I was transfixed, and humbled, to watch that video.
And thank you very much for telling us about Dr. Adams. Her painting is so vibrant and beautiful. I'm glad her mind found a new direction to explore. The mind is such a fascinating and surprising thing. It very often finds a way to expand in new directions when an old direction has been blocked. Some, we can see, because they express outwardly. Others we can only guess at, when the way that was blocked also blocks those of us on the outside from seeing in (some forms of stroke, alzheimers, aphasia, and coma leave the rest of us guessing as to what world might inhabit the place behind that person's eyes).
This post is wonderful Darina, and the video beyond amazing. I agree with crow too, the mind “…very often finds a way to expand in new directions when an old direction has been blocked.” Thank you…Albert
Wow!!!!! besides that word I am speechless……………..Wow!!!!! I loved seeing this !!!!! Thank you dear one.