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Web Extra: Dementia and Artistic Renaissance

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Frontotemporal dementia occurs when parts of the brain atrophy, causing marked personality changes. Some patients lose the ability to read other people's facial expressions. Others have trouble with language. Sometimes FTD also brings a new interest in art. Dr. Bruce Miller, director of the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, explains what patient artwork might suggest about the disease.

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