MIND MATTERS
Art&Medicine
Here you can find connection between art and our brain
Art-therapy
Art therapy is a distinct discipline that incorporates creative methods of expression through visual art media.
Neuroaesthetics
Neuroesthetics is a relatively recent sub-discipline of applied aesthetics. Empirical aesthetics takes a scientific approach to the study of aesthetic experience of art, music, or any object that can give rise to aesthetic judgments
What do doctors think about it?
Art may simply attract us in a superficial way, but it also has a strong power as a stimulus to draw something from our memory into our focus of consciousness. Everyone’s reactions to this process are different. They may take us to the past or very remote places, but their ability to produce an effect on us is unquestionable. .
Art&Medicine
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Art-therapy
There is increasing evidence in rehabilitation medicine and the field of neuroscience that art enhances brain function by impacting brain wave patterns, emotions, and the nervous system. Art can also raise serotonin levels. These benefits don’t just come from making art, they also occur by experiencing art. Observing art can stimulate the creation of new neural pathways and ways of thinking.
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Neuroaesthetics
Neuroaesthetics.There is a science called "neuroaesthetics". Neuroesthetics is a field within cognitive neuroscience investigating the neural underpinnings of esthetic experience, particularly in visual arts. Empirical aesthetics takes a scientific approach to the study of aesthetic experience of art, music, or any object that can give rise to aesthetic judgments. The topic attracts scholars from many disciplines including neuroscientists, art historians, artists, art therapists and psychologists. It is argued that visual aesthetics, namely the capacity of assigning different degrees of beauty to certain forms, colors, or movements, is a human trait acquired after the divergence of human and other ape lineages,rendering the experience of beauty a defining characteristic of humankind.
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What do doctors about it?
Christianne Strang, a professor of neurosciences at the University of Alabama Birmingham and former president of the American Art Therapy Association says: “Creativity in and of itself is important for remaining healthy, remaining connected to yourself and connected to the world,” Making art is good for everyone, not just our patients in the field of rehabilitation medicine. “When you experience virtual reality, read poetry or fiction, see a film or listen to a piece of music, or move your body to dance, to name a few of the many arts, you are biologically changed,” write Magsamen and Ross. “There is a neurochemical exchange that can lead to what Aristotle called catharsis, or a release of emotion that leaves you feeling more connected to yourself and others.”There is ample evidence that engaging in the arts improves well-being. For example, one study involving more than 23,000 British participants found that those who either made art at least once a week or attended cultural events at least once or twice a year were happier and had better mental health than those who didn’t. This was independent of their age, marital status, income, health behaviors, social support, and more.
