Our Brains on Art: An Ancient Prescription for 21st Century Solutions DOI

Susan Magsamen

Journal of Neuroscience, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 44(44), С. e1833242024 - e1833242024

Опубликована: Окт. 30, 2024

Have you ever experienced the awakening presence of a loved one with dementia as they sing familiar song? Or watched, in awe, tremors person Parkinson's disease stop and person's gait improves dance? wondered why, exactly, feel so moved when hear piece music? why digging garden or walking through beautiful natural vista brings sense calm? drawing, coloring, doodling for just few minutes can help relieve anxiety stress? felt physiologically calming effects poem read on day were inconsolable? In writing book Your Brain Art: How Arts Transform Us (Magsamen Ross, 2023), my coauthor Ivy chief design officer consumer devices Google, I sought to illuminate power arts aesthetic experiences. We wove together emerging science neuroaesthetics illustrate how creative expression advances our health, well-being, learning, this mode, which is available us all, poised shape future medicine, public education. After 6 d, became New York Times bestseller. Over last year, thousands people have told that validates their art experiences; it has given them permission make again; put into words what already knew intuitively. believe been successful because world hungry ways heal, thrive, flourish. Ironically, these solutions all along, since humanity began. Science finally catching up offering new possibilities translate cutting-edge research practice around … Correspondence should be addressed Susan Magsamen at smagsam1{at}jhmi.edu.

Язык: Английский

Our Brains on Art: An Ancient Prescription for 21st Century Solutions DOI

Susan Magsamen

Journal of Neuroscience, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 44(44), С. e1833242024 - e1833242024

Опубликована: Окт. 30, 2024

Have you ever experienced the awakening presence of a loved one with dementia as they sing familiar song? Or watched, in awe, tremors person Parkinson's disease stop and person's gait improves dance? wondered why, exactly, feel so moved when hear piece music? why digging garden or walking through beautiful natural vista brings sense calm? drawing, coloring, doodling for just few minutes can help relieve anxiety stress? felt physiologically calming effects poem read on day were inconsolable? In writing book Your Brain Art: How Arts Transform Us (Magsamen Ross, 2023), my coauthor Ivy chief design officer consumer devices Google, I sought to illuminate power arts aesthetic experiences. We wove together emerging science neuroaesthetics illustrate how creative expression advances our health, well-being, learning, this mode, which is available us all, poised shape future medicine, public education. After 6 d, became New York Times bestseller. Over last year, thousands people have told that validates their art experiences; it has given them permission make again; put into words what already knew intuitively. believe been successful because world hungry ways heal, thrive, flourish. Ironically, these solutions all along, since humanity began. Science finally catching up offering new possibilities translate cutting-edge research practice around … Correspondence should be addressed Susan Magsamen at smagsam1{at}jhmi.edu.

Язык: Английский

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