ASSOCIATED PRESSLeonardo da Vinci died 500 years ago, but doctors are still trying to diagnose the condition that disabled the artist and inventor's right hand in the final years of his life. In a new study, a team of doctors uses 16th century drawings and texts to pin the blame on a nerve injury sustained when da Vinci fainted. In the final years of his life, with his right arm paralyzed, da Vinci kept drawing, designing, and teaching -- but his paralyzed right hand forced him to leave several paintings, including the Mona Lisa, unfinished. Although a widely-accepted diagnosis blames the artist's affliction on a stroke in an isolated area of da Vinci's brain, which left his right arm paralyzed, the pair of doctors were skeptical. Instead, Lazzeri and Rossi suggest nerve damage in da Vinci's arm, not stroke-related damage to his brain.

Source: Forbes May 04, 2019 19:07 UTC