Date: April 20-21 2026 Location: Sune Bergström Aula, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden We invite healthcare professionals, art and culture specialists and persons working in and with hospital environmentsin the Baltic and Nordic countries to attend the Arts for Health seminar taking place on 20th and 21st of April 2026 at The New …
Daisy Fancourt’s new book “Art Cure: The science of how the arts transform our health”
About the book From the very beginning of life through old age, participation in the arts has profound benefits for our health and overall well-being. Music helps shape the developing brains of children, while creative hobbies keep our minds strong and more resistant to dementia. Activities such as dance and magic …
The Global Flourishing Study: What Contributes to a Life Well-Lived?
The recently published Global Flourishing Study (GFS) is a collaboration among researchers at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard, Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion and Gallup to address limitations in current research on human flourishing. The study investigates what contributes to a life well-lived — a topic that …
Music training can help the brain focus
Musical people find it easier to focus their attention on the right sounds in noisy environments. This is shown in a new study from Karolinska Institutet published in the journal Science Advances. The results suggest that music training can be used to sharpen attention and cognition. Being able to focus on …
Creative experiences and brain clocks
Creative activities may improve brain health, but the exact ways they do so are not yet fully understood. To explore this, this new study measured brain health using “brain clocks,” which estimate how quickly or slowly a person’s brain is aging compared to their actual age. M/EEG brain connectivity data from …
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