ABSTRACT
We Have Discussed how far structural alterations in the brain and their subsequent functional manifestations in such activities as art, are related to one another. I have mentioned that the operation of leucotomy induces a bilateral and more or less symmetrical injury to the prefrontal lobes of the brain, and that after leucotomy, or, for that matter, closed head injuries, executive skill becomes altered, and the criteria of creativeness, so various authors have claimed, become altered as well. Whereas the observation that brain injury alters executive skill is fairly well established and has been demonstrated psychometrically, its results have not been studied in creative artists. Furthermore, observations in linking artistic creativeness and leucotomy still need to be verified: the investigations hitherto published concern a poet and not a painter.
