In a recent study of 689 patients with frontotemporal dementia, visual artistic creativity (VAC) was demonstrated in 17 patients in the early phase of the disease. This visual artistic creativity was disproportionately associated with temporal lobe-predominant degeneration. Patients were prospectively recruited from the Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, California between 2002 and 2019. Two control groups were created: a) not visually artistic FTD (NVA-FTD) and b) healthy controls (HC). The primary outcomes were clinical, anatomical, and physiological data between cohorts. Among 689 eligible patients with FTD, 17 met the criteria for VAC-FTD; 51 patients were in each of the NVA-FTD and HC cohorts. Generally, VAC presented early in the course of FTD and was observed in 4 (32.5%) patients prior to FTD symptoms.Temporal lobe-predominant degeneration occurred in 8 out of 17 (47.1%) VAC-FTD patients. Which of the following is true regarding this study?
