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Unlocking Creativity in Dementia with Jake Broder, Lucy Davenport & Bruce Miller, MD

The Nocturnists

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Is the Brain Doing Its Job?

In some ways, training with a lot of technology where in a lot of acting these days you don't get the luxury of looking at your actors so you sort of get used to it. So this question is for the scientists. We learn in this play that language lives on the left side of the brain, and that when it goes away these new areas of the brain turn on. And I look as a touched on something that I think neurologists and neuroscientists think is ephemeral and not interesting,. Nothing more interesting than executive function or memory. The idea that you could develop a skill in the setting of a degenerative disease was a little heretical when I first started observing it

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