Emergence of artistic talent in logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia: a case report

Speech-language within and between network disruptions in primary progressive aphasia variants

“…nfvPPA patients on rare occasions have also presented with enhanced artistic abilities, creativity, abstract visualization and vibrant colour preference ( Mell et al, 2003 , Seeley et al, 2008 ). Although, visual attention is generally considered to be spared in lvPPA ( Foxe et al, 2016 ), there is one report that has shown the presence of these enhanced artistic abilities in lvPPA ( Papadopoulou et al, 2023 ) as well. Together these findings may suggest that emergence of a new ability is a compensation to breakdown in connectivity in another area.…”