Demencia Frontotemporal: un nuevo enfoque a través del arte.

SERRANO CM Y ALLEGRI RF.

REVISTA NEUROLOGICA ARGENTINA (ED. IMPRESA)

Estudio Sigma SRL

Lugar: Buenos Aires; Año: 2005 vol. 30 p. 43 - 50

0325-0938

Frontotemporal dementia. A new perspective through the art. Background: The art is predominantly in the right hemisphere, in contrast, the left side, have inhibitory effects on artistic expression. In normal subjects, inhibitory and excitatory mechanisms could interact in a complex harmony, reflecting a “paradoxical functional facilitation”. Brain diseases such as dementia could change this harmony and then, alter the artistic abilities. Case: A 68 year-old right handed woman, diagnosis: Fronto-Temporal Dementia (FTD). Artistic description: Increased artistic activity, originality, freedom, utilization of intense colours with perseverative and repetitive copying of similar paintings of her own work. Conclusions: The left- cerebral low activity release the right hemisfhere related with the art. The disproportionate functional prevalence of the right over the left could lead to a release of “noveltyseeking” in art and can contribute to emergent creativity. These observations suggest an organization for art in the brain and proposed bases for further investigations in dementias.Background: Background: The art is predominantly in the right hemisphere, in contrast, the left side, have inhibitory effects on artistic expression. In normal subjects, inhibitory and excitatory mechanisms could interact in a complex harmony, reflecting a “paradoxical functional facilitation”. Brain diseases such as dementia could change this harmony and then, alter the artistic abilities. Case: A 68 year-old right handed woman, diagnosis: Fronto-Temporal Dementia (FTD). Artistic description: Increased artistic activity, originality, freedom, utilization of intense colours with perseverative and repetitive copying of similar paintings of her own work. Conclusions: The left- cerebral low activity release the right hemisfhere related with the art. The disproportionate functional prevalence of the right over the left could lead to a release of “noveltyseeking” in art and can contribute to emergent creativity. These observations suggest an organization for art in the brain and proposed bases for further investigations in dementias.