Art Cure

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Discover the incredible impact art can have on your health and happiness in this groundbreaking book by award-winning scientist Daisy Fancourt. Learn how engaging with the arts could even extend your life and boost your well-being.

An eye-opening look at how art transforms our health and helps us thrive.

Often seen as just a pastime or luxury, art-from classical music to salsa, poetry to pop concerts, galleries to graffiti-might actually be one of the most powerful tools for enhancing our health and happiness. In Art Cure, Professor Daisy Fancourt, a world-leading expert, reveals how arts engagement can:

• Support children's brain development through songs
• Help keep the brain resilient against dementia with creative hobbies
• Reduce depression, stress, and pain as effectively as medicine through visual art and music
• Build new neural pathways in people with brain injuries via dance
• Lower the risk of loneliness and frailty by attending live music events, museums, exhibitions, and theatre
• Improve the function of every major organ system in the body

More than just helping us survive, art empowers us to truly flourish. Drawing from cutting-edge research across neuroscience, psychology, immunology, physiology, behavioral science, and epidemiology, alongside inspiring real-life stories, Fancourt offers an empowering guide to harnessing the healing power of the arts. Art Cure is the essential read for anyone wanting to boost their health by crafting their own 'arts prescription'.

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