Your Brain on Art - Talk with Authors Ivy Ross and Susan Magsamen

Name: Your Brain on Art - Talk with Authors Ivy Ross and Susan Magsamen
Start: 2025-09-29T17:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-29T18:30:00-04:00
Location: 110 Salem Avenue, SE, Roanoke, VA, United States, Virginia 24011

Schedule

Mon Sep 29 2025 at 05:30 pm to 06:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

110 Salem Avenue, SE, Roanoke, VA, United States, Virginia 24011 | Roanoke, VA

Carilion Clinic’s Dr. Robert L.A. Keeley Healing Arts Program presents an inspiring and insightful conversation with nationally acclaimed authors Ivy Ross and Susan Magsamen exploring the science of the healing power of the arts.
The conversation will be grounded in the authors’ book Your Brain on Art and moderated by Dr. Robert L.Trestman, Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at Carilion Clinic Virginia Tech School of Medicine.
About Your Brain on Art:
Many of us think of the arts as entertainment—a luxury of some kind. In Your Brain on Art, authors Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross show how activities from painting and dancing to expressive writing, architecture, and more are essential to our lives.
We’re on the verge of a cultural shift in which the arts can deliver potent, accessible, and proven solutions for the well-being of everyone. Magsamen and Ross offer compelling research that shows how engaging in an art project for as little as forty-five minutes reduces the stress hormone cortisol, no matter your skill level, and just one art experience per month can extend your life by ten years.
They expand our understanding of how playing music builds cognitive skills and enhances learning; the vibrations of a tuning fork create sound waves to counteract stress; virtual reality can provide cutting-edge therapeutic benefit; and interactive exhibits dissolve the boundaries between art and viewers, engaging all of our senses and strengthening memory.
Doctors have even been prescribing museum visits to address loneliness, dementia, and many other physical and mental health concerns.
Your Brain on Art is a portal into this new understanding about how the arts and aesthetics can help us transform traditional medicine, build healthier communities, and mend an aching planet.
Featuring conversations with artists such as David Byrne, Renée Fleming, and evolutionary biologist E. O. Wilson, Your Brain on Art is an authoritative guide to neuroaesthetics. The book weaves a tapestry of breakthrough research, insights from multidisciplinary pioneers, and compelling stories from people who are using the arts to enhance their lives.