Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
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Susan Magsamen. (2023). Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us. Random House Publishing Group.

Susan Magsamen. 2023. Your Brain On Art: How the Arts Transform Us. Random House Publishing Group.

Susan Magsamen, Your Brain On Art: How the Arts Transform Us. Random House Publishing Group, 2023.

Susan Magsamen. Your Brain On Art: How the Arts Transform Us. Random House Publishing Group, 2023.

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   • bioText: Susan Magsamen is the founder and director of the International Arts + Mind Lab, Center for Applied Neuroaesthetics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she is a faculty member. She is also the co-director of the NeuroArts Blueprint. Susan works with both the public and private sectors using arts and culture evidence-based approaches in areas including health, child development, education, workforce innovation, rehabilitation, and social equity.
     Ivy Ross is the Vice President of Design for hardware product area at Google, where she leads a team that has won over 225 design awards. She is a National Endowment for Arts grant recipient and was ninth on Fast Company’s list of the one hundred Most Creative People in Business in 2019. Ross believes that the intersection of arts and sciences is where the most engaging and creative ideas are found.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, which offers proof for how our brains and bodies transform when we participate in the arts—and how this knowledge can improve our health, enable us to flourish, and build stronger communities.
“This book blew my mind!”—Angela Duckworth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Grit

A BLOOMBERG BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • Finalist for the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award and the Porchlight Business Book Award
What is art? Many of us think of the arts as entertainment—a luxury of some kind. In Your Brain on Art, authors Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross show how activities from painting and dancing to expressive writing, architecture, and more are essential to our lives.
We’re on the verge of a cultural shift in which the arts can deliver potent, accessible, and proven solutions for the well-being of everyone. Magsamen and Ross offer compelling research that shows how engaging in an art project for as little as forty-five minutes reduces the stress hormone cortisol, no matter your skill level, and just one art experience per month can extend your life by ten years. They expand our understanding of how playing music builds cognitive skills and enhances learning; the vibrations of a tuning fork create sound waves to counteract stress; virtual reality can provide cutting-edge therapeutic benefit; and interactive exhibits dissolve the boundaries between art and viewers, engaging all of our senses and strengthening memory. Doctors have even been prescribing museum visits to address loneliness, dementia, and many other physical and mental health concerns.

Your Brain on Art is a portal into this new understanding about how the arts and aesthetics can help us transform traditional medicine, build healthier communities, and mend an aching planet.
Featuring conversations with artists such as David Byrne, Renée Fleming, and evolutionary biologist E. O. Wilson, Your Brain on Art is an authoritative guide to neuroaesthetics. The book weaves a tapestry of breakthrough research, insights from multidisciplinary pioneers, and compelling stories from people who are using the arts to enhance their lives.

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     Founder of the International Arts + Mind Lab at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Magsamen joins with Google designer Ross to explain how we react biologically to a striking painting or ravishing piece of music. And that, in turn, reveals how art can help us heal from trauma. Welcome to the exciting new science of neuroaesthetics.

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     January 30, 2023
     Art will heal what ails you, according to this scattershot treatise on aesthetics and well-being. Johns Hopkins neurologist Magsamen (Family Stories) and Ross, Google’s vice president of hardware design, draw on scientific studies to explain how making and appreciating art, music, dance, theater, and writing affect the brain and promote health. Some of the applications the authors highlight intrigue, such as the success of dance classes in helping Parkinson’s patients improve movement and singing classes in hastening new mothers’ recovery from postpartum depression. Other benefits are more modest and unsurprising: adult coloring books reduce stress and anxiety, and group dancing fosters social bonding. There’s disappointingly sparse insight on neuroscience, as well. For instance, when the authors note that “poetry activates brain areas such as the posterior cingulate cortex and medial temporal lobes,” which “intensify emotions,” the unsurprising takeaway is that poetry elicits an emotional response. Elsewhere, the scientific discussions sometimes edge toward new age mysticism, as when the authors write that the “notes C and G... resonate with the Earth’s core frequency and are known to be soothing vibrations.” This somewhat obvious brief comes up short. Photos.

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     February 1, 2023
     A useful guide to the science behind why the arts are fundamental to our physical and emotional health. Magsamen, a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Ross, a vice president of design at Google, introduce readers to an emerging scientific field known as neuroaesthetics, using fascinating case studies to demonstrate how the arts have lasting benefits for our mental and physical health. In fact, approaching everyday life with an "aesthetic mindset" can change our very physiology, literally rewiring our brains. Chronic pain, for example, can be managed by dance, while those who "engage in arts and cultural activities have a lower risk of developing chronic pain as they age." The authors also show how new parents recovering from postpartum depression feel better faster by the simple act of humming. Perhaps most shockingly, "people who engage in the arts every few months, such as going to the theatre or to a museum, have a 31 percent lower risk of dying early when compared with those who don't." Alongside the case studies, Magsamen and Ross present many accessible methods to bring the arts into your life, showing readers how to create a habit of participating in the arts just as you would follow a workout schedule. They analyze a variety of artistic mediums that provide benefits for the brain, including poetry, music, painting, and even doodling. "Art and science together are potent medicine," they write, "capable of radically transforming our physical health." From young children to adults with Alzheimer's, the arts can improve and even extend our lives. This fascinating account of the science behind this phenomenon will inspire readers to establish their own concrete plans to incorporate as much art into their lives as possible. Regularly engaging with the arts can make you live longer, and this absorbing book explains how.

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     The arts bring joy, improve lives, and heal bodies and minds. In fact, their transformative power is so strong that health-care workers are prescribing museum visits, and researchers are studying the "neuro-arts," note the enthusiastic authors, Magsamen from the International Arts + Mind Lab at the Center for Applied Neuroaesthetics at Johns Hopkins, and Ross, vice president of design for the hardware product area at Google. They convincingly proselytize about the value of the arts and nature, "the most aesthetic of places." Add more natural light and greenery to one's surroundings. A study found that patients who had windows with a view of nature had shorter hospital stays and took fewer pain medications. The arts have always helped people communicate, express feelings and beliefs, innovate, make tools, and solve problems, playing a key role in humanity's vitality. To get the most from the arts, the authors write, be a curious, playful explorer who pays attention to all five senses. And remember, not everyone perceives and responds to the arts in the same way. "One person's cacophony is another person's symphony," write Magsamen and Ross. Hear, hear!

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“This book blew my mind!”—Angela Duckworth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Grit

A BLOOMBERG BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • Finalist for the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award and the Porchlight Business Book Award
What is art? Many of us think of the arts as entertainment—a luxury of some kind. In Your Brain on Art, authors Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross show how activities from painting and dancing to expressive writing, architecture, and more are essential to our lives.
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