How Art May Alter The Face Of Dementia | Colette J. Brown | TEDxMissionViejo
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2024
- “Seeing is not as simple as looking.” - Joseph Kosuth. Colette Brown shares the idea that if we look deeper into the effects of art on our brains, we may just change the very face of Dementia.
Engaging in an interdisciplinary dialogue between art and science, Colette Brown’s work focuses on exploring systems both inside and outside the body- systems like brain plasticity and information processing. She holds a BA in Studio Art with a minor in Psychology from CSU Long Beach.
Colette is the principal investigator of a research project called The Mind is a Muscle II, an art-based cognitive health program aiming to reduce dementia risk among older adults. Her research is currently underway on the measured effects of her art-based cognitive health program, as she continues to investigate the multiple intersections of neuroscience, aging, communication, entropy, art, and life.
Colette maintains a studio art practice, and has worked with Colonial Care Assisted Living Center, EngAGE Long Beach Senior Arts Colony, PRO-Health Research Program, CSULB Neuroscience Lab, and UCLA Department of Medicine.
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At 72 years old I have taken a great interest in drawing mandala’s (something I’ve never really had great interest in). I believe I am expanding my spirituality as I draw mandalas as a form of meditation. Your talk was wonderful, you did a fantastic job relaying how art is helpful for us old folks. You are extremely intelligent thank you for this Ted talk.
Powerful for me in this moment of desperation...a loved one in the first stages of dementia... bless you.
An excellent talk, from which we might infer (or at least extrapolate) that science, by attempting to provide answers based on a fixed and highly formalized set of procedures/techniques, tends to promote rigid and compartmentalized thinking, whereas art, by stimulating our curiosity without attempting to provide answers, potentially vastly increases our individual capacity to think deeply about the world around us for ouselves...
I’ve always believed art and science worked hand and hand.Thank you for confirming that !
V intersting. At 75 I am doing a photographic MA here in the UK. Focusing on denemtia. I am in the middle of a 'Photovoice' programme. The results in a few weeks hopefully will mirror a lot of what you have described here. Very Good. Ian Smith
Thank you for this talk.
I love this. it is true.
Wow! Thank you x
It doesn't matter if you're good at creativity, just have fun with it.
Very cool! I was doing some research trying to find what kind of art might “appeal” to a person with Alzheimer’s. My aunt was diagnosed six years ago and is not doing very well. I was looking to create a piece of art that might make her happy to look at daily. If you have any recommendations on videos or ideas as far as color theory or anything else along those lines I would greatly appreciate it. Keep killing it :)