Sparks of visual artistic creativity occurred early in frontotemporal dementia and were disproportionately observed in patients with temporal lobe-predominant degeneration, a case-control study showed ...

Carol Spence’s vision is flooded with green. As her brush swoops right and swishes left, she’s first transported to a lush spring meadow, then to the canopies of a rainforest — every stroke bringing ...

For decades, doctors have noticed a rare burst of visual creativity that occurs among a small number of patients with dementia, echoing the same strange phenomenon among patients who have had a stroke ...

In some people, neurological conditions can set loose a torrent of new imaginativeness as if opening some mysterious floodgate. Migraine and epilepsy auras may have influenced a long list of artists, ...

People with frontotemporal dementia grapple with behavioral, language, and cognitive problems as their disease worsens. It may be small comfort but for a few, their disease sparks an artistic flair, ...