The illness of Vincent van Gogh

Journal of the History of the Neurosciences

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 22-43

  Arnold, Wilfred Niels ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Absinthe; Acute intermittent porphyria; Alcohol; Camphor; Inherited disease; Medical crises; Pinene; Thujone; Vincent van Gogh

Indexed keywords

ABSINTHOL; ALCOHOL; CAMPHOR; PINENE; PORPHOBILINOGEN DEAMINASE; PORPHYRIN;

ABSINTHE; ACHIEVEMENT; ACUTE INTERMITTENT PORPHYRIA; ALCOHOLISM; ART; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREATIVITY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISABILITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; DRAWING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC DISORDER; HISTORY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; METABOLIC DISORDER; ONSET AGE; PAINTING; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SUICIDE; SYMPTOM; WRITING;

FAMOUS PERSONS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MEDICINE IN ART; NETHERLANDS; PAINTINGS; PORPHYRIA, ACUTE INTERMITTENT;

EID: 4944248944     PISSN: 0964704X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09647040490885475     Document Type: Review

References (78)

1. Andreasen NC (1987): Creativity and mental illness: prevalence rates in writers and their first-degree relatives. Amer J Psychiat 144: 1288-1292.
2. Andreasen NC, Glick ID (1988): Bipolar affective disorder and creativity: implications and clinical management. Comp Psychiat 29: 207-217.
3. Arenberg IK, Countryman LF, Bernstein LH, Shambaugh GE (1990): Van Gogh had Ménière's disease and not epilepsy. JAMA 264: 491-493.
4. Arnold WN (1988): Vincent van Gogh and the thujone connection. JAMA 260: 3042-304.
5. Arnold WN (1989): Absinthe. Sci Am 260: 112-117.
6. Arnold WN (1992): Vincent van Gogh: Chemicals, Crises, and Creativity. Boston, Basel & Berlin, Birkhäuser.
7. Arnold WN (1995): Vincent van Gogh's birthday. Pharos Alpha Omega Alpha Hon Med Soc 58: 28-32.
8. Arnold WN, Loftus LS (1991): Xanthopsia and van Gogh's yellow palette. Eye 5: 503-510.
9. Baillarger JGF (1854): De la folie à double-forme. Ann Med Psychol 6: 367-391.
10. Barker LF, Estes WL (1912): Family hematoporphyrinuria in association with chronic gastroduodenal dilation, peculiar fits and acute polyneuritis: a preliminary report. JAMA 59: 718-719.
11. Beer J (1935): Essai sur les rapports de l'art et de la maladie de Vincent van Gogh. (Thèse, Doctorat en Médecine), Strasbourg: Elie Mazel.
12. Bickers DR, Miller L, Kappas A (1975): Exacerbation of hereditary hepatic porphyria by surreptitious ingestion of an unusual provocative agent, a mouthwash preparation. N Engl J Med 292: 1115-1116.
13. Blumer D (2002): The illness of Vincent van Gogh. Am J Psychiatry 159: 519-526.
14. Bonkovsky HL, Cable EE, Cablew JW, Donohue SE, White EC, Greene YJ, Lambrecht RW, Srivastava KK, Arnold WN (1992): Porphyrogenic properties of the terpenes - camphor, pinene, and thujone; with a note on the illness of Vincent van Gogh. Biochem Pharmacol 43: 2359-2368.
15. Bonkovsky HL, Sinclair PR, Emery S, Sinclair JF (1980): Seizure management in acute hepatic porphyria: risks of valproate and clonazepam. Neurology 30: 588-592.
16. Dagg JH, Goldberg A, Lochhead A, Smith JA (1965): The relationship of lead poisoning to acute intermittent porphyria. Quart J Med 34: 163-175.
17. Doiteau V, Leroy E (1928): La Folie de Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Æsculape.
18. Ellenhorn MJ, Barceloux DG (1988): Medical Toxicology. New York, Elsevier.
19. Fabbri R Jr (1966): Dr. Paul-Ferdinand Gachet: Vincent van Gogh's last physician. Trans Stud Coll Physicians Phila 33: 202-208.
20. Falret JP (1854): Mémoire sur la folie circulaire. Bull Acad Natl Med 19: 382-415.
21. Finger S (2000): Minds Behind the Brain: A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries, New York, Oxford University Press.
22. Gachet PF (1858): Étude sur la Mélancolie. Montpellier, Montpellier Médical.
23. Gastaut H (1956): La maladie de Vincent van Gogh envisagée à la lumière des conceptions nouvelles sur l'épilepsie psychomotrice. Ann Med Psychol 1: 196-238.
24. Gastaut H (1970): Clinical and electroencephalographical classification of epileptic seizures. Epilepsia 11: 102-113.
25. Gates RR (1946): Human Genetics. New York, Macmillan.
26. Gibbs FA, Gibbs EL, Lennox WG (1937): Epilepsy: a paroxysmal cerebral dysrhythmia. Brain 60: 377-388.
27. Goldberg A (1985): Molecular genetics of acute intermittent porphyria. BMJ 291: 499-500.
28. Goodman LJ, Karakusis PH (1988): Neurosyphilis. In: Vinken PJ, Bruyn GW, Klawans HL, eds., Handbook of Clinical Neurology. Amsterdam, Elsevier, Vol. 52, Chapter 18.
29. Goodwin FK, Jamison KR (1990): Manic-Depressive Illness. New York, Oxford University Press.
30. Harker LA, McCabe BF (1980): Meniere's disease and other peripheral labyrinthine disorders. Ir: Paparella MM, Shumrick DA, eds., Otolaryngology, 2nd edition, chapter 41. Philadelphia, WB Saunders.
31. Hemphill RE (1961): The illness of Vincent van Gogl. Proc Roy Soc Med 54: 1083-1088.
32. Hulsker J (1990): Vincent and Theo van Gogh: A Dual Biography. Ann Arbor, Fuller Publications.
33. Jackson JH (1931): Selected Writings of John Hughlings Jackson. London, Hodder & Stoughton
34. Jamison KR (1993): Touched With Fire: Manic Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament. New York, Free Press: Maxwell Macmillan.
35. Jaspers K (1922): Strindberg und van Gogh. Leipzig, Ernst Bircher.
36. Johnson HA (1934): No madman. Art Digest 8: 11.
37. Kappas A, Sassa S, Galbraith RA, Nordmann Y (1989): The porphyrias. In: Scriver CR, Beaudet AL, Sly WS, Valle D, eds., The Metabolic Basis of Inherited Disease. New York, McGraw-Hill, 6th edition, pp. 1305-1365.
38. Knudsen KB, Sparberg M, Lecocq F (1967): Porphyria precipitated by fasting. New Engl J Med 277: 350-351.
39. Kräepelin E (1921): Manic-depressive Insanity and Paranoia (Translated by RM Barclay). Edinburgh, Livingstone, 8th edition.
40. Laiwah AACY, Mactier R, McColl KEL, Moore MR, Goldberg A (1983): Early-onset chronic renal failure as a complication of acute intermittent porphyria. Quart J Med 52: 92-98.
41. Lee TC (1981): Van Gogh's vision: digitalis intoxication? JAMA 245: 727-729.
42. Lip GYH, McColl KEL, Goldberg A, Moore MR (1991): Smoking and recurrent attacks of acute intermittent porphyria. BMJ 302: 507.
43. Loftus LS, Arnold WN (1991): Vincent van Gogh's illness: acute intermittent porphyria. BMJ 303: 1589-1591.
44. Lubin AJ (1972): Stranger on the Earth; A Psychological Biography of Vincent van Gogh. New York, Holt, Rinehart Winston.
45. Monroe RR (1978): The episodic psychoses of Vincent van Gogh. J Nerv Ment Dis 166: 480-488.
46. Monroe RR (1992): Creative Brainstorms. New York, Irvington.
47. Moore MR (1980): International review of drugs in acute porphyria. Int J Biochem 12: 1089-1097.
48. Navratil L (1959): Vincent van Gogh: his disease assessed in the light of his paintings. CIBA Found Symp 7: 210-216.
49. Niedermeyer E (1983): Epilepsy Guide. Diagnosis and Treatment of Epileptic Seizure Disorders. Baltimore & Munich, Urban & Schwarzenberg.
50. Penfield W, Jasper H (1954): Epilepsy and the Functional Anatomy of the Brain. Boston, Little, Brown and Co.
51. Perry I (1947): Vincent van Gogh's illness: a case record. Bull Hist Med 21: 146-172.
52. Peters HA (1986): Acute Hepatic Porphyria. In: Johnson RT, ed., Current Therapy in Neurologic Disease 1985-1986. New York, BC Decker, pp. 317-321.
53. Pickvance R (1984): Van Gogh in Arles. New York, Harry N. Abrams Inc.
54. Pickvance R (1986): Van Gogh in Saint-Rémy and Auvers. New York, Harry N. Abrams Inc.
55. Pinel P (1818): Nosographie Philosophique ou la Méthode de l'Analyse Appliquée a la Médicine. Paris, Brosson, 6th edition.
56. Prinzhorn H (1972): Artistry of the Mentally Ill (Translated by E von Brockdorf). New York, Heidelberg, Berlin, Springer-Verlag. (Original German version: Prinzhom H. 1922. Bildnerei der Geisteskranken. Berlin: Verlag Julius Springer.)
57. Prinzhorn H (1972): Artistry of the Mentally Ill (Translated by E von Brockdorf). New York, Heidelberg, Berlin, Springer-Verlag. (Original German version: Prinzhom H. 1922. Bildnerei der Geisteskranken. Berlin: Verlag Julius Springer.)
58. Rewald J (1986): Theo van Gogh as an art dealer. In: Gordon I, Weitzenhoffer F, eds., Studies in Postimpressionism. New York, Harry Abrams Inc, pp. 7-115.
59. Ridley A (1969): The neuropathy of acute intermittent porphyria. Quart J Med 38: 307-333.
60. Robbins SL (1957): Textbook of Pathology With Clinical Applications. Philadelphia & London, WB Saunders Co.
61. Rothenberg A (1990): Creativity and Madness, New Findings and old Stereotypes. Baltimore and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press.
62. Sarwer-Foner GJ (1988): The course of manic-depressive (bipolar) illness. In: Georgotas A, Cancro R, eds., Depression and Mania. New York, Elsevier, chapter 4.
63. Sassa S (1978): Toxic effects of lead, with particular reference to porphyrin and heme metabolism. In: De Matteis F, Aldridge WN, eds., Heme and Hemoproteins. Berlin, Springer-Verlag.
64. Schmidt H (1915): l'Absinthe. l'Aliénation mentale et la criminalité. Rapport fait au nom de la commission d'hygiène publique de la chambre des députés. Annales d'Hygiene Publique et de Médicine Légale 23: 121-133.
65. Schnier J (1950): The blazing sun: a psychological approach to van Gogh. Am Imago 7: 143-162.
66. Sollmann T (1948): A Manual of Pharmacology and its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology. Philadelphia & London: WB Saunders Company, 7th edition.
67. Stokvis BJ (1889): Over twee zeldzame kleurstoffen in urine van zieken. Weekblad van het Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde 2: 409-417.
68. Tralbaut ME (1981): Vincent van Gogh. New York, The Alpine Fine Arts Collection.
69. van Gogh VW (1978): The Complete Letters of Vincent van Gogh Boston, New York Graphic Society, Vols. I-III, 2nd edition.
70. van Gogh-Bonger (1978): Memoir of Vincent van Gogh. In: van Gogh VW, ed., The Complete Letters of Vincent van Gogh. Boston, New York Graphic Society, Vol. I, 2nd edition, pp XV-LIII.
71. Vinchon J (1960): Diagnostic de la "folie" de van Gogh. Historie de la Médecine Communications présentées à Paris à la Société Francaise d'Histoire de la Médecine en 1960, pp. 23-24.
72. Voskuil PHA (1983): The epilepsy of Fyodor Mikhailovitch Dostoevsky (1821-1881). Epilepsia 24: 658-667.
73. Waldenström J (1937): Studien ueber Porphyrie. Acta Med Scand 82(Suppl.): 1-254.
74. Waldenström J (1957): The porphyrias as inborn errors of metabolism. Am J Med 22: 758-773.
75. Welland FH, Hellman ES, Gaddis EM, Collins A, Hunter GW Jr, Tschudy DP (1964): Factors affecting the excretion of porphyrin precursors by patients with acute intermittent porphyria. I. The effect of diet. Metabolism 13: 232-250.
76. Willis T (1672): De anima brutorum: Oxonii: R. Davis. Translated by S. Porage. In: Practice of Physick as Two Discourses Concerning the Soul of Brutes. London, Dring, Harper, Leigh (1683), Vol. I, p. 188.
77. Withering W (1785): An Account of the Foxglove and Some of its Medical Uses: with Practical Remarks on Dropsy and other Diseases. Birmingham, GGJ & J Robinson. (This book was reproduced under the same general title, with annotations by Aronson JK (1985): London, Oxford University Press).
78. Yasuda K (1979): Was van Gogh suffering from Ménière's disease? Otologia Fukuoka 25: 1427-1439.