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Jamison presents proof of the biological foundations of this disease and applies what is known about the illness to the lives and works of some of the world's greatest artists including Lord Byron, Vincent Van Gogh, and Virginia Woolf.
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It explores whether exuberance can be inherited, parses its neurochemical grammar, and documents the methods people have used to stimulate it.
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