Narrated by Kate Reading
Approximately 7 hours
Unabridged
Book published by
Kate Reading (narrator) has narrated more than a hundred audiobooks for major companies and is the winner of multiple Earphones Awards (AudioFile).
REVIEWS:
“Our leading authority on creativity reveals herself with this splendid book as one of the most valuably creative persons of our time.”
—Kurt Vonnegut “This splendid, quick read should be a compulsory assignment for those students of the humanities who think themselves irrevocably bored with biology of any sort, including what they will find to be the fascinating links to the human brain's most powerful cultural tool, the capacity for extraordinary creativity.... I highly recommend it.”
—Floyd Bloom, Professor Emeritus of Neuropharmacology, The Scripps Research Institute and former editor-in-chief of Science “High intelligence is not at the heart of high creativity. More important to Nancy Andreasen are labile associative cortical regions (neural capacity for free association) that often veer their possessors toward depression or psychosis.”
—Nobel laureate James Watson, Chancellor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory “An expert analysis of the connections between extraordinary creativity, mental illness, intelligence and the social environment.... Andreasen leaves us with hope that the potential exists to enhance the creative capacity in our children and in ourselves.”
—Publishers Weekly “Drawing on her expertise as a scientist, physician, and scholar of literature, Nancy Andreasen gives a clear readable, synoptic account of current knowledge in human creativity.”
—Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Education and Cognition, Harvard Graduate School of Education “Nancy Andreasen's book comes as a welcome antidote to this inherent conservatism and shows us how creativity can be approached scientifically. In a market flooded with ‘new age' books on creativity, Dr. Andreasen's meticulously researched contribution comes as a breath of fresh air.”
—V.S. Ramachandran, MD, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California‚ÄìSan Diego, and author of A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness “I've been a novelist for 37 years and suddenly I understand myself better. Nancy Andreasen's The Creating Brain is a fascinating journey into the nature and secrets of the creative brain. The sections on Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci are amazing, and the concluding exercises could be life changing.”
—David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author of The Brotherhood of the Rose and Creepers “An accessible discussion of a complex concept that should provoke discussion because the author locates creativity in the person rather than in the relation between the creative agent and his/her community.”
—Jerome Kagan, Daniel and Amy Starch Research Professor of Psychology, Harvard University and Director, Mind/Brain Behavior Interfaculty Initiative “Psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and writer, Nancy Andreasen guides us to the frontier, creativity and the brain. Setting the absorbing historical context from Greece to the twentieth century, analyzing case studies, and citing her own seminal work, Andreasen uses neuroscience to approach the near-mystical mechanisms that define our humanity. What is the relationship of creativity to intelligence? Is creativity nature or nurture? How is creativity related to mood disorder or schizophrenia? How can we become more creative ourselves? In accessible, graceful prose, Andreasen draws us into this brave new adventure.”
—Ira Black, Professor and Chair, Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School “Our observations during forty years as teachers of music using Shinichi Suzuki's philosophy of early childhood education (Ability Development from Age Zero) find resonance in these scientific discoveries”
—William and Doris Preucil, Past Presidents of the Suzuki Association of the Americas |
