It has been used as medicine, dating back to the Greeks, who “prescribed” poetry in conjunction with other medical interventions.

In his lab, Bessel van der Kolk saw on fMRI scans the significant decrease in the Broca’s area when a person was actively reliving a trauma through flashback. In this case, the individuals being monitored had survived a major car accident, and they were asked to recall as much as they could of that harrowing event. “Our scans showed that the Broca’

the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture with the goal of applying the latest in neuro and cognitive sciences to the betterment of our built environment.

Ivy’s colleague had a strong emotional response to the thought that the toy would be a failure.

It’s a catalyst for wondering, and it’s also the place where you think about things that don’t have an explicit goal. When you’re making art, how you choose to express yourself comes in part from this network. The DMN is a filter for what you think is beautiful or not beautiful, memorable or not, meaningful

the many emotions and thoughts that emerge as a result. Your brain is expert at filtering out the inputs that it deems irrelevant and focusing its attention on what it believes to be pertinent. Something that is salient is important to us either practically or emotionally; it’s what stands out.

CymaScope, which uses water as a medium to create these beautiful visible images of our sound vocalizations.

Extreme stress can also lead to burnout. Burnout is a psychological syndrome that emerges after a prolonged response to chronic stress, where we become exhausted, detached, and cynical. It is often associated with work, but it can happen in other aspects of our lives,

Around 2014, Anjan and colleagues developed a theoretical model known as the aesthetic triad, and it explains how three components—our sensorimotor systems, our reward system, and our cognitive knowledge and meaning-making—combine to form an aesthetic moment.