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Pages 211-223 (March 2010)
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Vol. 39. Issue 1.
Pages 211-223 (March 2010)
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Demencia y creatividad: emergencia de una actividad pictórica en un paciente con afasia primaria progresiva
Dementia and Creativity: The Emergence of Pictorial Activity in a Patient with Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA)
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Diana Matallana1,*, Patricia Montañes2
1 Neuropsicóloga, PhD. Facultad de Medicina, Coordinadora de la Clínica de Memoria, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, Colombia
2 Neuropsicóloga, PhD. Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Clínica de Memoria, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, Colombia
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Resumen
Introducción

Pacientes con síndromes que afectan áreas frontotemporales han desarrollado ocasionalmente una preocupación por el arte o una emergencia de una actividad creativa pictórica no presente antes de su enfermedad.

Objetivo

Presentar el caso de una mujer de 66 años de edad que premórbidamente no tenía interés por el arte, pero comenzó a pintar a los 56 años, cuando aparecieron alteraciones conductuales y de expresión lingüística. El deterioro marcado del lenguaje y del comportamiento fue progresando hasta instaurarse una afasia primaria progresiva (APP), un subtipo de una demencia frontotemporal (DFT), y su inusitado talento se convirtió en el primer síntoma de la APP.

Método

Estudio de caso.

Resultados

Se presentan y discuten los resultados neuropsicológicos, comportamentales y de imagen cerebral, ilustrando con algunos de los cuadros pintados por la paciente.

Conclusión

El proceso cognoscitivo asociado a la creatividad surgida a partir de la APP, llamado “facilitación funcional paradójica”, está posiblemente relacionado con la patología del lóbulo dominante anterior temporal que potencia la actividad cerebral posterior. Los esfuerzos encaminados a comprender el inicio de este inusitado talento enmarcan este estudio de caso.

Palabras clave:
afasia primaria progresiva
demencia frontotemporal
Abstract
Introduction

Patients with syndromes that involve fronto-temporal areas have developed occasionally, either an interest in art or an emergence of creative pictorial activity not present before the disease.

Objective

We present the case of a 66 year-old woman who had no premorbid artistic ability but started to paint at the age of 56, before the onset of behavioral and expressive language impairment. Marked deterioration of language and behavior progressed to primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a subtype of FTD, and this unusual talent became the first symptom of the disease.

Design

Case study. Results: The neuropsychological, behavioral, and brain image results are discussed, and some examples of the oil pictures are shown.

Conclusion

The cognitive process associated with the emergence of creativity in PPA is called paradoxical functional facilitation, and might be related to dominant anterior temporal lobe pathology that enhances posterior brain activity. Future efforts to comprehend the appearance of such an unusual talent frame this case study.

Key words:
primary progressive aphasia
fronto-temporal dementia
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