Creativity and dementia: A review

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 193-209

  Palmiero, Massimiliano ^a   Di Giacomo, Dina ^a,b   Passafiume, Domenico ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b Foundation F Alberto Mileno   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Artistic creativity; Divergent thinking; Emotions; Frontotemporal dementia

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPREHENSION; CREATIVITY; DEMENTIA; DIVERGENT THINKING; DRAWING; EMOTION; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; LEWY BODY; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MUSIC; PAINTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEREOTYPY; THINKING; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; WELLBEING;

CREATIVITY; DEMENTIA; HUMANS;

EID: 84865755141     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-012-0439-y     Document Type: Review

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