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Vol. 40. Issue 4.
Pages 807-817 (December 2011)
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Vol. 40. Issue 4.
Pages 807-817 (December 2011)
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Demencia y creatividad: emergencia de una actividad pictórica en un paciente con afasia primaria progresiva
Dementia and Creativity: Emergence of Pictorial Activity in a Patient with Primary Progressive Aphasia
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Diana Matallana1,
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dianamatrossi@gmail.com

Correspondencia: Diana Lucía Matallana Eslava, Facultad de Medicina, Clínica de Memoria, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Hospital de San Ignacio, Carrera 7ª No. 40-62, Bogotá, Colombia
, Pablo Reyes2, Keny Palacio2, Tito Moreno3, Patricia Montañés4, Carlos Cano5
1 Neuropsicóloga PhD. Coordinadora, Clínica de Memoria, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, Colombia
2 Estudiante, Maestría de Neurociencias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Bogotá, Colombia
3 Psicólogo, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Bogotá, Colombia
4 Neuropsicóloga PhD, Universidad Nacional de Colombia y Clínica de Memoria, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, Colombia
5 Médico geriatra. Director, Clínica de Memoria, Fundación Universitaria Santafé de Bogotá. Bogotá, Colombia
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Introducción

Ocasionalmente, pacientes con síndromes que afectan áreas frontotemporales han desarrollado o 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, quien no tenía interés artístico, pero comienza a pintar a los 56 años de edad, previa a la instauración de alteraciones comportamentales y de lenguaje expresivo. Un deterioro marcado del lenguaje y el comportamiento fue progresando hasta instaurarse una afasia primaria progresiva (APP), un subtipo de 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 algunos ejemplos de los cuadros pintados al óleo.

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. Futuros esfuerzos encaminados a comprender el inicio de este inusitado talento enmarcan este estudio de caso.

Palabras clave:
demencia
creatividad
afasia
cerebro
Abstract
Introduction

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

Objective

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

Method

Case study.

Results

The neuropsychological, behavioral, and brain image results will be discussed and some examples of the oil pictures will be illustrated.

Conclusion

Cognitive processes associated with the emerged creativity in PPA are called paradoxical functional facilitation and might be related to dominant anterior temporal lobe pathology that enhances posterior brain activity. Future efforts to understand the emergence of such an unusual talent outline this case study.

Key words:
Dementia
creativity
aphasia
brain
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