Pop music and frontotemporal dementia
- 26 December 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 55 (12) , 1935-1936
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.55.12.1935
Abstract
A 68-year-old lawyer progressively developed apathetic behavior, indifference to his job, and disinhibition. On neuropsychological examination, Mini-Mental State Examination score (MMSE) was 28/30; abstract thinking, judgment, and word fluency were impaired, whereas all other functions including memory were spared. Brain MRI showed mild slightly asymmetric (right greater than left) frontal and temporal atrophy, with enlargement of the frontal and temporal horns of the lateral ventricles. SPECT showed mainly frontal symmetric hypoperfusion. The patient was diagnosed with FTD. The patient’s premorbid musical preferences had been directed to classical music, and he used to define pop music as “mere noise.” About 2 years after his diagnosis, he started to …This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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