PSYCH 119T Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Corticobasal Degeneration, Dementia With Lewy Bodies, Frontotemporal Dementia
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Damage fractionates the behavior art production, art abilities into components that can be studied/observed. The effects of the damage teach us the nature of the control of art by the brain. Artist with ad = from taiwan, realistic paintings; practiced art professionally for 50 years; born in 1929. Atrophy begins in frontal and temporal lobes. If atrophy is greater in left hemisphere, we see language deficits. Poor ability to communicate socially & linguistically. American, art teacher and artist, trained in chinese arts. Acrylic on paper (a) chinese horoscope figure completed 7 years after onset of her illness, soon after she quit teaching. (c) male nude series completed 9 years into her illness. Four masks made 13 years into her illness & one of the last 2 she made before death. (a) she made hundreds of ink sketches of cafes, coffee shops, ~ 7 years into her illness. (b) drawing in ink of coffee shop scene 12 years into her illness.
