MEMÓRIA MUSICAL PRESERVADA NA DEMÊNCIA SEMÂNTICA: UM ESTUDO PRELIMINAR

Semantic dementia (DS) is a clinical syndrome of the group of frontotemporal lobar degenerations. There is evidence that semantic memory for music can be relatively spared in DS, which has been studied as a possible use of music to recognize the neuroanatomic distribution of the disease and other aspects of musical communicability in DS. We report the case of a patient aged 57 years, with DS diagnosis, who was submitted to neurological music therapy techniques in speech and language. After analyzing videotapes we verified that intentional responses and greater spontaneous verbalization were manifestations of communicability provided by music.