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van Leeuwen JEP, Boomgaard J, Bzdok D, Crutch SJ, Warren JD. More Than Meets the Eye: Art Engages the Social Brain. Front Neurosci 2022; 16:738865. [PMID: 35281491 PMCID: PMC8914233 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.738865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2021] [Accepted: 02/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Here we present the viewpoint that art essentially engages the social brain, by demonstrating how art processing maps onto the social brain connectome-the most comprehensive diagram of the neural dynamics that regulate human social cognition to date. We start with a brief history of the rise of neuroaesthetics as the scientific study of art perception and appreciation, in relation to developments in contemporary art practice and theory during the same period. Building further on a growing awareness of the importance of social context in art production and appreciation, we then set out how art engages the social brain and outline candidate components of the "artistic brain connectome." We explain how our functional model for art as a social brain phenomenon may operate when engaging with artworks. We call for closer collaborations between the burgeoning field of neuroaesthetics and arts professionals, cultural institutions and diverse audiences in order to fully delineate and contextualize this model. Complementary to the unquestionable value of art for art's sake, we argue that its neural grounding in the social brain raises important practical implications for mental health, and the care of people living with dementia and other neurological conditions.
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- Janneke E. P. van Leeuwen
- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- The Thinking Eye, ACAVA Limehouse Arts Foundation, London, United Kingdom
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- Research Group Art and Public Space, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, McGill University, Montréal, ON, Canada
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Fernandes C, Macedo I, Barbosa F, Marques-Teixeira J. Economic decision-making in the continuum between healthy aging and Alzheimer's Disease: A systematic review of 20 years of research. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2021; 131:1243-1263. [PMID: 34715151 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.10.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2021] [Revised: 09/23/2021] [Accepted: 10/23/2021] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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The effect of pathological aging on economic decision-making is a topic of major relevance as impairments in this domain place older adults at increased risk for financial abuse. This review aims to characterize decision-making across the continuum that goes from healthy aging to Alzheimer's Dementia. We included 42 studies comparing patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and healthy older adults, patients with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and healthy older adults, and patients with MCI and patients with AD. Substantial evidence emerged suggesting that both MCI as AD affect economic decision-making. However, a non-negligible number of behavioural tasks failed to find significant differences between patients and controls, and no differences were reported between patients with MCI and AD. On the contrary, measures of financial capacity reached more robust findings, showing that healthy older adults had better performance than patients, while MCI patients showed better performance than AD patients. This review presents the main conclusions that may be drawn from significant findings, as well as the hypotheses and recommendations for future research.
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- Carina Fernandes
- Laboratory of Neuropsychophysiology, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal.
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- Laboratory of Neuropsychophysiology, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal
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- Laboratory of Neuropsychophysiology, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal
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- Laboratory of Neuropsychophysiology, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal
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Yerstein O, Carr AR, Jimenez E, Mendez MF. Neuropsychiatric Effects on Decision-Making in Early Alzheimer Disease. J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol 2020; 33:68-72. [PMID: 32013736 PMCID: PMC8220792 DOI: 10.1177/0891988719888292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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BACKGROUND Neuropsychiatric symptoms can impact decision-making in patients with Alzheimer disease (AD). METHODS Using a simple decision-making task, a variant of the ultimatum game (UG) modified to control feelings of unfairness, this study investigated rejection responses among responders to unfair offers. The UG was administered to 11 patients with AD, 10 comparably demented patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), and 9 healthy controls (HC). The results were further compared with differences on the caregiver Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI). RESULTS Overall, patients with AD significantly rejected more total offers than did the patients with bvFTD and the HC (P < .01). On the NPI, the only domain that was significantly worse among the patients with AD compared to the other groups was dysphoria/depression. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that early AD can be distinguished based on increased rejections of offers in decision-making, possibly consequent to a heightened sense of unfairness from dysphoria/depression.
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- Oleg Yerstein
- VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, USA,Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, USA,Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, USA,Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA,Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Arroyo-Anlló EM, Chamorro Sánchez J, Ortiz Oria VM, Gil R. Consciencia del otro en patologías neurodegenerativas. REVISTA LATINOAMERICANA DE PSICOLOGIA 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.rlp.2015.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Dartigues JF, Foubert-Samier A, Le Goff M, Viltard M, Amieva H, Orgogozo JM, Barberger-Gateau P, Helmer C. Playing board games, cognitive decline and dementia: a French population-based cohort study. BMJ Open 2013; 3:e002998. [PMID: 23988362 PMCID: PMC3758967 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES To study the relationship between board game playing and risk of subsequent dementia in the Paquid cohort. DESIGN A prospective population-based study. SETTING In the Bordeaux area in South Western France. PARTICIPANTS 3675 non-demented participants at baseline. PRIMARY OUTCOME MEASURE The risk of dementia during the 20 years of follow-up. RESULTS Among 3675 non-demented participants at baseline, 32.2% reported regular board game playing. Eight-hundred and forty participants developed dementia during the 20 years of follow-up. The risk of dementia was 15% lower in board game players than in non-players (HR=0.85, 95% CI 0.74 to 0.99; p=0.04) after adjustment on age, gender, education and other confounders. The statistical significance disappeared after supplementary adjustment on baseline mini-mental state examination (MMSE) and depression (HR=0.96, 95% CI 0.82 to 1.12; p=0.61). However, board game players had less decline in their MMSE score during the follow-up of the cohort (β=0.011, p=0.03) and less incident depression than non-players (HR=0.84; 95% CI 0.72 to 0.98; p<0.03). CONCLUSIONS A possible beneficial effect of board game playing on the risk of dementia could be mediated by less cognitive decline and less depression in elderly board game players.
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- INSERM U 897, Université Bordeaux Ségalen, Bordeaux cedex, France
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- IEEP, Institute for European Expertise in Physiology, Paris, France
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- INSERM U 897, Université Bordeaux Ségalen, Bordeaux cedex, France
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- INSERM U 897, Université Bordeaux Ségalen, Bordeaux cedex, France
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW Neurodegenerative diseases often cause focal damage to brain structures mediating social cognition and personality, resulting in altered interpersonal communication and behavior. We review recent research describing this phenomenon in various aspects of social cognition. RECENT FINDINGS Corresponding to their pervasive socioemotional deficits, patients with frontotemporal dementia perform poorly on laboratory-based tasks including recognizing emotions, attending to salient information that guides social behavior, representing social knowledge, comprehending others' mental states, and maintaining insight to their own difficulties. Together with poor executive and regulation mechanisms, these social cognition deficits ultimately impact behavior. Patients with logopenic and nonfluent primary progressive aphasia have some deficits recognizing emotional prosody, whereas those with the semantic variant show more widespread deficits in social comprehension. Although Alzheimer's disease patients perform poorly on some social cognition tasks, this typically reflects general cognitive impairment, and their real-life social functioning is less affected than in diseases targeting frontotemporal structures. Studies in motor diseases such as Parkinson's suggest some degradation of emotion recognition and social comprehension, which should be investigated further. SUMMARY We summarize recent findings concerning perception and evaluation of socioemotional information, social knowledge storage and access, advanced information processing mechanisms, and behavioral response selection and regulation across various neurodegenerative diseases.
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Fulton AT, Rhodes-Kropf J, Corcoran AM, Chau D, Castillo EH. Palliative care for patients with dementia in long-term care. Clin Geriatr Med 2011; 27:153-70. [PMID: 21641503 DOI: 10.1016/j.cger.2011.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Seventy percent of people in the United States who have dementia die in the nursing home. This article addresses the following topics on palliative care for patients with dementia in long-term care: (1) transitions of care, (2) infections, other comorbidities, and decisions on hospitalization, (3) prognostication, (4) the evidence for and against tube feeding, (5) discussing goals of care with families/surrogate decision makers, (6) types of palliative care programs, (7) pain assessment and management, and (8) optimizing function and quality of life for residents with advanced dementia.
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- Ana Tuya Fulton
- Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Butler Hospital, Providence, RI 02906, USA
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