Rheumatic disorders in creative artists

Mescaline, Psilocybin, and Creative Artists

A number of creative people claim to have benefited from psychotherapy which utilized psychedelic drugs. Actor Cary Grant attributed "a new assessment of life" to LSD (Gaines, 1963). Blues singer Ronnie Gilbert, in 1964, was mired in a deep depressive state from which she found it impossible to break free. In desperation, she entered LSD therapy and, during the following six months, went throug...

Creative Artists and Creative Scientists: Where Does the Buck Stop?

Imagine this scenario: Picasso, an innovator of early twentieth-century modern art, is sitting in his studio in France in the 1950s. He has just received unsettling news from Spain. General Franco, the autocratic dictator long despised by Picasso, has given a nationally broadcast speech in which he praised the artist effusively. This bulletin alone, while distasteful, is not what is troubling h...

Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists

'One picture is worth more than a thousand words'. A medical artist should always consider an illustration with this in mind. Unlike the brilliant illustrators of Dickens's novels, who needed to portray larger than life characters, a medical illustrator has to portray small, often complex structures, which may never be seen in the way it is illustrated, something a photograph could never achiev...

Ubiquitous Inspiration: A field study of artists and creative environments

Paraneoplastic Rheumatic Disorders

Received: February 22, 2012 Accepted: February 28, 2012 Correspondence: Ömer Faruk Şendur, M.D. Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Fiziksel Tıp ve Rehabilitasyon Anabilim Dalı, 09100 Aydın, Turkey. Tel: +90 256 444 12 56 e-mail: [email protected] ©2012 Turkish League Against Rheumatism. All rights reserved. Altta yatan malign bir hastalık nedeniyle ortaya çıkan, tümör veya metastaz ile ...