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This book is a collaborative project between Susan Magsamen, head of the NeuroArts Program at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, USA) and Ivy Ross, vice president of design for hardware products at Google. It is a glimpse into the future alignment of artificial intelligence (AI) and medicine, providing insights into how medical and business collaboration can lead to innovation in treating psychiatric and neurological disorders. It is also a book about how to flourish as you age and how to find hope in a time of world misery.
We live in an era of political uncertainty, financial woes, and threats to democracy but this book's outlook is hopeful and positive. It shows how engaging in an art project—from painting and dancing to expressive writing, architecture, and more—reduces the stress hormone cortisol, no matter your skill level, and just one art experience per month can extend your life by ten years. The authors are passionate in offering a scientific framework for understanding how artistic and creative ways of being in the world can help us transform traditional medicine, build healthier communities, and mend an aching planet. Divided into seven chapters, 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 to illustrate their findings.
Over the past three decades, there has been an explosion of interest in lay applications of brain science to just about everything. Chatterjee (2011; Chatterjee & Cardillo, 2022) at the University of Pennsylvania has developed a theoretical model of the aesthetic triad which include: a) sensorimotor input; b) cognitive knowledge; and c) meaning-making to produce “an aesthetic moment”. Abraham (2018), in his book The Neuroscience of Creativity examines this further.
The more recent science of neuroaesthetics was first recognised by Semir Zeki (1999), the p