How Art Can Heal The Brain

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🗓️ 18 March 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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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.

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0:00.0	You're listening to shortwave from NPR.
0:06.5	People with disorders like anxiety and PTSD may get a range of treatments, but there's
0:11.3	only one that sounds like this.
0:16.3	NPR's resident brainiac, John Hamilton, is here to explain what a ukulele has to do with
0:21.8	that treatment.
0:22.8	Or as the Hawaiian say, ukulele.
0:25.0	Yes.
0:26.0	Hello, John.
0:27.0	Nice to talk to you.
0:28.0	Hi, Aaron.
0:29.0	How you doing?
0:29.9	Great.
0:30.9	I'm super excited to get to talk arts and science.
0:34.3	So I can totally see how strumming an instrument can be a source of joy and delight.
0:40.3	But are you telling me that it can also be a medical treatment?
0:44.2	Yes.
0:45.2	In this case, it is a form of what is known as arts therapy.
0:49.4	And if you're thinking that sounds a little bit woo-woo, so did I.
0:53.0	But these treatments, you know, music, painting, dance, poetry, they are starting to get some
0:57.9	cred in the scientific world.
1:00.3	And that ukulele treatment, it's become really important to this guy.
1:04.5	My name is Michael Schneider.
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