What Parkinson’s Reveals About the Artistic Spark
- Author(s)
- Matthew Pelowski, Blanca Thea Maria Spee, Alby Richard, Paul Krack, Bastiaan R. Bloem
- Abstract
Parkinson’s disease is the fastest-growing neurological condition in the world, cur- rently affecting around 0.1 percent of the population and rising to 3 percent of those over the age of 65. The list of well-known patients is long— from Muhammad Ali to Vincent Price, to, more recently, Michael J. Fox. Find- ing ways to ease the symptoms and improve the lives of people with Par- kinson’s disease is a broad, urgent area of research. Along the way, the study of Parkinson’s patients is also having a re- markable, and rather unexpected, con- sequence: It may lead to new insights into the basis of the “artistic spark”— the neurobiology underlying the way we create and respond to art.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, Vienna Cognitive Science Hub
- External organisation(s)
- Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM), Universitätsspital Bern (Inselspital), Radboud University
- Journal
- American Scientist: the Magazine of Sigma XI, the Scientific Research Society.
- Volume
- 108
- Pages
- 240-245
- No. of pages
- 6
- ISSN
- 0003-0996
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1511/2020.108.4.240
- Publication date
- 07-2020
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 302052 Neurology, 604004 Fine arts, 501011 Cognitive psychology
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/what-parkinsons-reveals-about-the-artistic-spark(3e84c217-a104-498f-bc37-6602559f3cca).html