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What disease can get late emergence of artistic and musical ability?
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frontotemporal dementia (Pick's disease)
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Patient Louis had semantic dementia. What was his problem and what did Sacks think about this?
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Music takes over his life, the feeling of music as well as rhythmic patterns. Would sing things with gusto and energy but not know what the meaning of a word he was singing as well as sing a nonsense song with great energy. He retained vivid autobiographical memories but lose factual category stuff. His speech was empty-repetitive, fragmentary, and stereotyped. Sacks believed he was just living in the present.
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What can FT dementia alter?
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musical taste or preference
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Ravel has Pick’s disease late in life, with semantic aphasia. What was his problem?
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inability to deal with representations and symbols, abstract concepts, or categories. But his mind teemed with musical patterns—which he could no longer notate on paper
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Who was Hughling-Jackson and what was the neurological issue with his disorder?
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the brain dynamic, incessantly active and dynamic, with certain potentialities being actively suppressed or inhibited. Perhaps damage to one brain area (language, left hemisphere, and esp anterior left hemisphere) releasing activity (singing, rt hemisphere) by another
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Possibly damage to the more recently evolved ___________ of the dominant hemisphere upsets the brain’s equilibrium, and a release of the perceptual powers associated with the ______ and _______ areas of the non-dominant hemisphere. Examples?
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anterior temporal lobe, posterior parietal and temporal
Jacome's 1984 patient: Loss of verbal skills after stroke, access of musicality; as verbal recovered, musicality retreated again. Rolf Silber another example: while recovering had greatly heightened ability to hear music, structure, individual instruments. |
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After what hemisphere stroke has many cases ofartistic people becoming more free formally and emotionally, and with increased or altered artistic ability? What serious damage should this disease avoid though? What may be the cause to this artistic increase? ex?
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left hemisphere, the frontal lobe's planning and executive powers
Possibly artistic potential, and even some actuality, may be present always, and released by damage to left temporal lobe of dominant hemisphere. Grandma Moses example |
