Building a better brain through immersive media. The power of music, dance and poetry.
“Creativity is making new connections, new synapses,” says Ivy Ross, who is vice president of hardware design at Google and co-author of the New York Times bestseller Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us.
Ross co-wrote the book with Susan Magsamen, director of the International Arts + Mind Lab, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Pedersen Brain Science Institute. Magsamen says art’s effect on the brain is most dramatic in children.
In Your Brain on Art, Magsamen and Ross describe how a person’s neural circuitry changes in response to activities like learning a new song, or a new dance step, or how to play a character onstage.
These physiological changes to the brain are being observed in people who interact with a range of immersive media including video games, movies and live experiences.
At DeepWell DTx we are preparing for our talk at SXSW so this week we will highlight some of the media changing the mental health landscape.
A great start is this NPR All Things Considered episode. I hope you enjoy it and have a Happy Monday
Source: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/04/03/1167494088/your-brain-on-art-music-dance-poetry
