... network. In this exploratory study, we used a multimodal approach combining structural and functional MRI, and TMS to quantify the interactions between the principal cortical nodes of fine motor control network in patients with writer’s cramp and matched healthy controls. We also explored whether...

... D₁ receptor function in two independent groups of patients, writer’s cramp and laryngeal dystonia, compared to healthy controls. We found that availability of dopamine D₁ receptors was significantly increased in bilateral putamen by 19.6–22.5% in writer’s cramp and in right putamen...

... of the primary motor hand area in 10 patients with writer’s cramp and 10 age‐matched controls. Motor evoked potentials (MEPs) were recorded from right APB muscle and right first dorsal interosseus (FDI) muscle. Resting and active motor threshold, mean MEP amplitude at rest, short‐latency intracortical inhibition...

... of the mechanisms underlying voluntary muscle relaxation during motor preparation and execution in patients with writer’s cramp, using event‐related functional MRI. Eight patients with writer’s cramp and 12 age‐matched control subjects participated in the study. Two motor tasks were employed as an experimental...

...T. Odergren; N. Iwasaki; J. Borg; H. Forssberg writer’s cramp dystonia sensory-motor integration precision grip Correspondence to: Tomas Odergren, Department of Neurology, Karolinska Hospital, Box 130, S-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden 25 9 1995 06 11 1995 © Oxford University Press 1996...

... to works Forster E M Marrs Suzanne Mudd Roger Natchez Trace poverty Welty Edward friendships Austen Jane Chekhov Anton Dinesen Isak Macdonald Ross Mississippi Department of Archives and History MDAH as reader Introductory strategies “The Little Store” One Writer’s Beginnings Biography...

... by taking tiny steps and shift your perspective. advancement path skills writer’s block anxiety confidence emotional responses journey metaphor overwhelm feelings of trust writing skills commitment doctoral students expectations inadequacy feelings of performance rigour science scientific...

... the writer is his own recipient. The chapter looks especially at passages where James reflects on his own practice as a writer; it identifies a cluster of key French words, all of them associated by James with the work of imagination and the craft of fiction. French Italian James Henry letters Paris...

... by the NASA/Ames Research Center. Chapter 3 concludes with Bradbury’s entry into the world of writing conferences, first with Writer’s Community at Squaw Valley and then with the annual Santa Barbara Writers’ Conference, where he would lecture and work with writers for more than thirty years. At the urging...

...This chapter mines the retrospective, reflective work of writers and artists who grew up in Detroit and have looked back at how the city shaped their work, particularly in terms of music. Quotes from poems and writings show how the book and its author’s stake in memory as history and source...

...This chapter introduces an enquiry into the writer’s house museum as an idea and cultural form, arguing that it begins to emerge in the late eighteenth century as a widespread phenomenon. Starting from the working hypothesis that such museums are primarily designed to effect a figure of the author...

... with an interest in the story and nature of sites of literary pilgrimage, and in particular the writer s house museum, the subject of this book. In 1854 an aspiring young painter, Henry Wallis, launched his career by exhibiting three paintings at the Royal Academy in London. Entitled res­pect­ ivel­y The Room...

...This chapter challenges the British-oriented approach to postwar Anglophone Caribbean literature by illustrating that across the Caribbean, the 1950s was a moment in which anticolonial optimism collided with postcolonial crisis and in which writers came to doubt the power of their words...

...This chapter begins with the premise that Southern women’s writing is always political, that “all great texts are revolutionary because they change attitudes—mental, social, and political” and follows with an analysis of Eudora Welty’s autobiography One Writer’s Beginnings...

...This chapter focuses on Eudora Welty’s Losing Battles, The Optimist’s Daughter, and One Writer’s Beginnings to address the critical question of the future for literature by analyzing Barthes’ “moments of truth” in Welty’s late novels...

... knew viewers would identify Harry with the bad-Woody of the scandal, and, perhaps for that reason, he has the reprobate fiction writer saved by his art. His writer’s block lifts when, inspired by a dream of an honoring ceremony his characters hold for him, he imagines crafting a story about someone...

...The introduction summarizes the scope of the project and its methodologies, arguing for a critically descriptive reading practice. Looking at artists’ books, conceptual writing projects, and texts by writers as diverse as Marcel Duchamp, Solmaz Sharif, and Angelo V. Suárez, the chapter first...

...The writers studied in this book assert their freedom to write fiction by following intuitive impulses rather than any prescriptive convictions regarding style, form, or vision. Each is motivated by a commitment to the knowledge that may be discovered through experimental fiction, although all...

... father daughter relationships psychoanalysis Ritual Rape dream money translating work writer’s block ‘The Snow Queen’ Andersen White Antonia Woolf Virginia Botting Christine AW’s mother Convent of the Sacred Heart Frost in May Affective Disorder Father-daughter relationship Writer’s block...

...This chapter provides a biographical sketch of Habib Tanvir with particular attention to his intense theatrical commitment and activity from the period of nationalistic fervour to the period before the Independence in 1940s. Moreover, his acquaintance with members of the Progressive Writer’s...