Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Release of creativity by frontotemporal dementia
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This is a fascinating 'symptom' of FTD. I saw a BBC documentary many years ago in which a case was presented of a verger with Pick's disease who developped a surprising creativity. Like I remember it, probably somewhat exaggerated, before his FTD he was rather perfectionistic and rigid.
ReplyDeleteInteresting in this aspect was the theory of Lhermitte(1986) who described the parietal lobe as a source of creative activity that was in some kind of balance with the inhibitory function of the prefrontal lobe.
By the way: I enjoy reading your posts a lot! Your choice of topics very close to my field of work, unfortunately I don't play the piano.