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Dementia and Painting in Patients from Different Cultural Backgrounds

Author(s) -

Akira Midorikawa,

Toshio Fukutake,

Mitsuru Kawamura

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

european neurology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.573

H-Index - 77

eISSN - 1421-9913

pISSN - 0014-3022

DOI - 10.1159/000151697

Subject(s) - painting , dementia , frontotemporal lobar degeneration , psychology , semantic dementia , disease , frontotemporal dementia , expression (computer science) , medicine , gerontology , art , visual arts , pathology , computer science , programming language

Some patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) have been shown to develop painting abilities after the onset of the disease; however, the reported cases have all been in western countries. The purpose of this report was to investigate whether this phenomenon was unique to western countries.

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