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People with dementia may have hidden artistic talents Frontotemporal dementia’s breakdown of inhibitions may spur on creativity.

A beautiful moment I had with Daft Punk and my gran-mother. I was listenning to get lucky , and she remembered somehow Daft Punk and she started to dance on get lucky. It was a rare moment when she had all her lucidity because she is alzheimer. It made me cry. 

an alzheimer 87 year old mother remember her daughter.

n 1995, at the age of 61, American artist William Utermohlen was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. In response to the illness, the London-based artist immediately began to paint an ambitious series of self-portraits. From the time of his diagnosis to 2000, when he was admitted to a nursing home, Utermohlen created a powerful documentation of his painful descent into dementia as a way to try to better understand his condition.

(via realist-e)