EP# 173 Your Brain on Art (Interview with Susan Magsamen)

2025-08-17

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Do arts interventions and creative engagement really make a difference in our lives and our brains? Yes, they really do. Come explore what the Neuro Arts movement is all about. In this conversation with Susan Magsamen, the author of Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us, and Director of The International Arts and Mind Lab at John's Hopkins University School of Medicine, we cover: *Why putting ourselves in the path of AWE is powerful for our brains. *What is Neuro-Plasticity? *How the Saliency Networks in our brains impacts wh...

Do arts interventions and creative engagement really make a difference in our lives and our brains? Yes, they really do. Come explore what the Neuro Arts movement is all about. In this conversation with Susan Magsamen, the author of Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us, and Director of The International Arts and Mind Lab at John's Hopkins University School of Medicine, we cover:

*Why putting ourselves in the path of AWE is powerful for our brains.

*What is Neuro-Plasticity?

*How the Saliency Networks in our brains impacts why certain things resonate with us.

*Why daydreaming is good for us.

*How nature is the ultimate enriched environment for us.

*What is the default mode network of our brain? The seat of ourslves or place of rumination?

*And what actually causes us to ruminate?

*The Aesthetic Triad, how we are wired vs our lived experiences.

*The paradigm shift that is happening right now in public health.

*Music Break, take a breathe and let go. (*Song: Of Your Own by James Harrell)

*Why Art and Science together is potent medicine.

*What is Entrainment and why is it so powerful in arts interventions?