Arts as a tool for communications and rehabilitation. The findings from Neurosciences.

Francesca Federico; Antonio Federico

Francesca Federico Departiment of Developmental and Social Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome
Antonio Federico Past-full Professor Neurology at University of Siena, Consultant Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese , Siena, and Rehabilitation Istitute Auxilium Vitae, Volterra, Italy. Director Dept Neurosciences and Social Sciences, SELF Hochschule, Zug, Switzerland

Keywords: art and brain, Stendhal syndrome, art and brain pathology

Abstract

The link between arts and brain is reported, describing the relationship between several brain area and the artistic behavior, the modifications of the art performances following pathologic conditions, art performed by mentally disabled patients as an instrument of communications and rehabilitation, and finally the example of Stendhal syndrome as a condition in which arts may stimulate brain, in susceptible subjects, leading to physical and psychological disturbances.