What Parkinson's Reveals About the Artistic Spark
Parkinson's disease is the fastest-growing neurological condition in the world, currently affecting around 0.1 percent of the population and rising to 3 percent of those over the age of 65. Finding ways to ease the symptoms and improve the lives of people with Parkinson's disease is a broa...
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Published in | American scientist Vol. 108; no. 4; pp. 240 - 243 |
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Main Authors | , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Research Triangle Park
Sigma XI-The Scientific Research Society
01.07.2020
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Online Access | Get full text |
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Summary: | Parkinson's disease is the fastest-growing neurological condition in the world, currently affecting around 0.1 percent of the population and rising to 3 percent of those over the age of 65. Finding ways to ease the symptoms and improve the lives of people with Parkinson's disease is a broad, urgent area of research. Along the way, the study of Parkinson's patients is also having a remarkable, and rather unexpected, consequence: It may lead to new insights into the basis of the "artistic spark"--the neurobiology underlying the way we create and respond to art. Here, Pelowski et al examine why and how Parkinson's patients might experience an increased desire, and even ability, to create art. |
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ISSN: | 0003-0996 1545-2786 |
DOI: | 10.1511/2020.108.4.240 |