Thursday, January 23, 2014

Arts & the Mind: Arts in Education - ORCHkids on PBS

Alzheimer's researchers call it a powerful tool to ward off dementia. At-risk teens use it to find meaning in the world around them—and in themselves. It offers healing to both chronically ill toddlers and veterans battling PTSD. What is this magical elixir? Art.
Arts & the Mind explores the vital role the arts play in human development during both youth and older age, and shares stories and cutting edge scientific research on how music, dance, painting, poetry and theater markedly improve well-being at both ends of life.
Hosted and narrated by Lisa Kudrow, Arts & the Mind makes the point that art is not a "luxury," but central to the development of the human brain in youth and keeping our minds sharp as we get older. "At a time in our history when arts education is being diminished in our schools, these films document how the arts positively shape young minds, and keep our minds agile as we age," host Lisa Kudrow said.

-- uploaded by Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

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