Arts Engagement in Trauma Recovery Shows Significant Mental Health Benefits JHU’s IAM Lab and Path with Art publish research showing arts engagement improves self-efficacy, adding to growing body of evidence supporting arts in public health for trauma recovery Baltimore, MD, June 1, 2026—The Johns Hopkins University International Arts + Mind Lab (IAM LAB), Center for Applied Neuroaesthetics and Seattle-based Path with Art announce results of a new neuroarts […] Read More Planetary Health and Neuroarts The powerful role of the arts in reconnecting people with nature. Key points Planetary health links human well-being directly to Earth’s ecological systems and stability. The arts can turn abstract crises like climate change into personal, actionable experiences. Neuroarts show how […] Read More Advancing Transformational Experiences: Insights from the Set & Setting Collaborative Gathering On March 22, the Set & Setting Collaborative brought together an inspiring assembly of researchers, clinicians, cultural leaders, artists, educators, and philanthropists at 1440 Multiversity. This multidisciplinary gathering aimed to […] Read More In a Time of Stress, Neuroaesthetic Spaces and Places Create a Path to Healing and Hope As workers report back to the office, children again fill classrooms, and all of us sort through the pandemic-induced trauma and stress of the past two years, it’s helpful to […] Read More Redesigning the Office to Support Brain Health With the pandemic stretching into a third year, employers are scrambling to reconfigure how and where work gets done, with more businesses returning to in-person following years of Zoom meetings […] Read More Occupying Space is the Protest By IAM Lab Contributor Hannah L. Drake Editor’s Note: Hannah L. Drake is a writer, spoken word artist-activist and cultural strategist at Ideas xLab in Louisville, Kentucky. Her work focuses […] Read More Building More Equitable Communities with Creative Placemaking For better or worse, the spaces we inhabit shape the contours of our lives. But for many racial minorities, these spaces literally embody the systemic inequity and racism they face. […] Read More Reimagining Place: Identity, Healing and Justice with Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson, a community planning expert and institute professor at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts and the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions […] Read More Why a Dose of Nature Is Essential to Your Mental Health When was the last time you went out and soaked up some nature? Even in pre-pandemic times, most American adults spent 93% of their time indoors. Now, with social distancing […] Read More Feeling Frazzled Working from Home? These Design Tweaks Can Help Your Brain Remember when working from home was a big perk? In search of a more balanced life, the number of people working from home has been steadily rising for decades. Some […] Read More More → Join the neuroaesthetics conversation: Subscribe here | Support our work: Donate here