In May 1889, a young artist entered a madhouse from the small French town of Saint-Remy.
The artist suffered great mental delusions and the doctors diagnosed him epilepsy. It was called Vincent van Gogh.
Touring the same places and landscapes that Van Gogh recreated in his paintings raises intriguing questions about how he saw the world. Is it possible that the physical disorders in your brain transformed your perceptions? Could it be that not only was the epilepsy causing mental problems but at the same time enhance your amazing creativity?
Dr. Shahram Khoshbin, from Harvard Medical School, says:
"I believe that Van Gogh saw the world differently and we are fortunate that he was able to reflect that world on canvas and allow us to see it through his eyes.
For the past 30 years, Shahram Khoshbin has attempted to reconstruct the effect epilepsy had on Van Gogh's life and art.
“We know that Vincent Van Gogh suffered a type of seizure that had a little more to do with the flow of his ideas and behavior than with aspects of epilepsy, where patients fall to the ground, have seizures, foam at the mouth and they lose consciousness. "
Khoshbin believes that in Van Gogh's case the epilepsy affected an area of his brain located behind the temples, known as temporal lobe.
“Both sensory integrity and the senses of sight and hearing are processed in that area. It is easy to see how a disorder in that area could create an extraordinary sensory difference.«[mashshare]
I think that the medical advance in the study of the mind and the head lacks avant-garde
They are copied and experienced since the time of Freud, more or less in the same
There are no significant discoveries, as there are in other areas much more advanced than in our head
Spend time (years) with psychiatrists and psychologists and there is NO progress
It becomes a dependency without an accurate diagnosis and one doubts and doubts, as in the first day
It is like a cancer without return, but: of ideas