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

The Nocturnists

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Is It a Fucking Masterpiece?

Anne just had to paint. This is not mystical or extraordinary in some ways this is because the parts of her brain and the back were activated, the parts that see colors that see symmetry, the rhythm I don't understand yet. And she was activated back there, unlike a lot of our FQD patients who are activated she did something. The correlate of this is the whole left hemisphere is that she showed in the artists, unlike the people who were artists, that this one little region in the left hemisphere that uses the right hand to paint was actually bigger. That's this fierce drive that Anne and others had despite this attack on the entire left side of the brain with the right side getting

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