Arts Week: How Art Can Heal The Brain
Podcast: Short WavePublished On: Tue Nov 29 2022
Description: Arts therapies appear to ease a host of brain disorders from Parkinson's to PTSD. But these treatments that rely on music, poetry or visual arts haven't been backed by rigorous scientific testing. Now, artists and brain scientists have launched a program to change that. NPR's brain correspondent Jon Hamilton tells us about an initiative called the NeuroArts Blueprint in this encore episode. If you want to know more about the neuroaesthetics research Aaron mentioned participating in, you can read the paper The brain on art: intense aesthetic experience activates the default mode network: https://bit.ly/3Vfqk9kLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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