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      Artistic Skills Recovery and Compensation in Visual Artists after Stroke

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          Abstract

          Background

          Art is a characteristic of mankind, which requires superior central nervous processing and integration of motor functions with visual information. At the present time, a significant amount of information related to neurobiological basis of artistic creation has been derived from neuro-radiological cognitive studies, which have revealed that subsequent to tissue destruction, the artists continue to create art. The current study aims to review the most important cases of visual artists with stroke and to discuss artistic skills recovery and compensation as well as artistic style after stroke.

          Methods

          The role of various central nervous system regions in artistic creation was reviewed on the basis of previously published functional studies. Our PubMed search (1995–2015) has identified 10 famous artists with right cerebral stroke as well as 5 with left cerebral stroke who survived and continued to create art after stroke. As the artists included in this review lived at various times during the twentieth century and in different countries, clinical information related to their case was limited. However, it appears that artistic skills recovery and compensation appear within days after stroke. Some of the artists would subsequently change their artistic style. All these elements have been evaluated within the context of specific clinical cases.

          Conclusion

          The poststroke artistic skills recovery and compensation with development of a new style or the opposite, regaining the previous prestroke style, represents a significant element of clinical importance in medical rehabilitation as well as neuroesthetics, which requires further evaluation. At the present time, the molecular mechanisms of artistic creation are poorly understood, and more standardized clinical and experimental studies are needed.

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                URI : http://frontiersin.org/people/u/36594
                URI : http://frontiersin.org/people/u/174569
                URI : http://frontiersin.org/people/u/133403
                Journal
                Front Neurol
                Front Neurol
                Front. Neurol.
                Frontiers in Neurology
                Frontiers Media S.A.
                1664-2295
                13 May 2016
                2016
                : 7
                : 76
                Affiliations
                [1] 1Griffith University School of Medicine , Gold Coast Campus, QLD, USA
                [2] 2Queensland Eye Institute , Brisbane, QLD, Australia
                [3] 3Art Department and Disability Studies Program, University of California Berkeley , Berkeley, CA, USA
                [4] 4Department of Psychiatry, University of Medicine Rostock , Rostock, Germany
                [5] 5Center of Clinical and Experimental Research, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Craiova , Craiova, Romania
                [6] 6Arts Administration, Boston University , Boston, MA, USA
                [7] 7Griffith University School of Dentistry and Oral Health , Gold Coast Campus, QLD, Australia
                Author notes

                Edited by: Scott E. Kasner, University of Pennsylvania, USA

                Reviewed by: Ru-Lan Hsieh, Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taiwan; Ayrton R. Massaro, Hospital Sirio-Libanes, Brazil

                *Correspondence: Eugen Bogdan Petcu, e.petcu@ 123456griffith.edu.au

                Specialty section: This article was submitted to Stroke, a section of the journal Frontiers in Neurology

                Article
                10.3389/fneur.2016.00076
                4865522
                27242659
                69e18e2e-5398-4775-9a7d-365680ed0e5a
                Copyright © 2016 Petcu, Sherwood, Popa-Wagner, Buga, Aceti and Miroiu.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

                History
                : 08 October 2015
                : 29 April 2016
                Page count
                Figures: 10, Tables: 2, Equations: 0, References: 48, Pages: 12, Words: 7864
                Categories
                Neuroscience
                Review

                Neurology
                artistic skills recovery,compensation,functional magnetic resonance imaging,stroke,prefrontal lobe,parietal lobe,molecular

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