Arts & the Mind
Arts & the Mind
Hosted by Lisa Kudrow, this two-part special reveals the crucial impact of the arts on the human brain across our lifetimes and explores its particularly vital role in human development during youth and older age. The series shares stories of how music, dance, painting, poetry and theater markedly improve well-being at both ends of life, and reveals the cutting-edge science that explains the powerful, positive impact of the arts on our brains. Showcasing some of the nation's most innovative and successful arts programs plus the work of leading American educators and scientists, ARTS & THE MIND illuminates: how the arts can improve children's school performance, and keep our brains agile and sharp into old age; how teenagers find meaning and hope through poetry at a renowned Los Angeles program supported by actor Tim Robbins; how the arts help heal children in hospitals and older veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder; why one of America's leading Alzheimer's researchers advises that dance is the single most effective way to ward off dementia.
All Episodes
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(1 of 2) (#101)
Experts across the country address the critical role the arts play in developing healthy minds and how participation keeps minds sharp across a lifetime. [56 minutes]
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(2 of 2) (#102)
From newborns to American veterans of today's wars to those in older age, artists and experts illustrate how art is the brain's lifeline to empathy, emotion, community, mental agility and healing. [56 minutes]