The man in behavioral neurologist Adit Friedberg’s office could not speak. “He could not even utter a single word,” Friedberg said. The man had lost his ability to understand or produce words, and had been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia, a form of frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
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Some dementia patients begin to create art. We may now know why.
A study has identified the potential brain structures and their connections that lead some frontotemporal dementia patients to start painting or producing other forms of art
By Sam Jones
August 10, 2023 at 9:01 a.m. EDT