IAM Lab News and Stories Can You Mend a Broken Heart Through the Arts? Music, painting, writing and other arts enrich our lives in so many ways. But they’re not only good for the soul; they can also enhance physical well-being, including heart health, […] Read More The Neurobiology of Love It’s that time of year, when love is in the air and on the minds of couples everywhere. But what exactly are these lovebirds thinking? Thanks to modern imaging, scientists […] Read More Creating a Love Connection in the Heart of Times Square By IAM Lab Guest Contributor Suchi Reddy In July 2018, our architecture and design studio, Reddymade, was invited along with seven other firms, to compete in the tectonic contemplation of […] Read More IAM Lab Launches Primer on Impact Thinking IAM Lab recently launched a new section of its website dedicated to Impact Thinking, our translational research approach to enhance human potential in health, wellbeing and learning through the arts. […] Read More One Book Baltimore: Healing a City, Page by Page Author Nic Stone answers student questions about her book, “Dear Martin,” selected for the One Book Baltimore initiative. Want students to love reading? Give them a book they can […] Read More Creating Healthy Communities: Arts + Public Health in America Jill Sonke stood before a captivated audience of researchers, healthcare officials, museum directors and artists convening for a discussion of Arts in Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Sonke, Director of […] Read More IAM Lab Hosts Inaugural Arts in Medicine Meeting at Johns Hopkins Healing through arts is ancient practice with innumerable applications in modern day medicine. Yet integration of the arts into contemporary healthcare has its challenges, requiring thoughtful cross-sector collaboration to shape […] Read More Reimagining the Future of Arts in Health at the 2018 NOAH Conference The second annual National Organization for Arts in Health (NOAH) conference, part of the Healthcare Facilities Symposium and Expo, took place in Austin, TX this past October 2018. This dynamic […] Read More Music and the Brain: A Discussion with Legendary Jazz Guitarist Pat Metheny at SfN Dialogues Between Neuroscience and Society Panel on Music and the Brain. Pictured from left to right: Charles Limb, Pat Metheny and Richard Huganir. The 2018 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting […] Read More Your Brain on Art: A Promising Path to Healing War Trauma Seven service members, all diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from combat, sat at the psychotherapy group table, creating symbols of themselves out of clay on a fabric placemat to […] Read More ← Back More → Join the neuroaesthetics conversation: Subscribe here | Support our work: Donate here
