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卷 5, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/reports5030032
关键词
stroke; neglect; spatial dissociation; creativity; painting; writing
资金
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), SNF [SNF-175615]
This paper presents the observation of a patient who had a right hemispheric stroke and subsequently produced remarkable paintings. The patient's post-stroke productivity and the distribution of text and drawings were analyzed. The patient showed enhanced verbal and figural creativity compared to the control group. Interestingly, the paintings were predominantly located on the right side, while the text was aligned to the left side. This dissociation between writing and painting behavior was also reflected in the patient's neuropsychological performance.
The paper depicts and describes the observation of a remarkable post-stroke production of paintings made by a 54-year-old, right-handed man who suffered an acute right hemispheric stroke. The patient's post-stroke productivity and the spatial distribution of text and drawings were assessed by means of structural analysis of the paintings, as well as neuropsychological and creativity testing. Compared to the age-matched healthy control group, the patient did not only produce more valid answers in the verbal creativity task, but he also drew more images in the figural creativity task. Most strikingly, the painted images were located on the right side in 70% of the paintings, while the text was aligned to the left side in 42% of the paintings. This dissociation between writing and painting behavior was further mirrored in the patient's neuropsychological performance in a reading test and in a design fluency task. This observation of an increased post-stroke production of paintings may coin a new term, i.e., hyperzographia, in analogy to hypergraphia. Additionally, the puzzling dissociation of the writing and painting behavior highlights an important new clinical aspect concerning a differential influence of hemispatial neglect on writing and painting.
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