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“HOW CREATIVITY CAN PREVENT PARLKINSON’s – Can art keep you healthy?”
New article published in “Rudolphina Research Magazine”
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“Art as medicine” for people with Parkinson
The Austrian newspaper “Die Presse” interviewed project Co-PI Blanca Spee and the potential benefits of Art for people with Parkinson’s disease.
Creativity and Parkinson Disease
In this series of short videos (in dutch), project Co-PI Blanca Spee answers questions about the positive effect of creativity on Parkinson’s disease.
Blanca Spee talks about her work in Switzerland
Feeding the Spark
The Center for Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders at the University Hospital for Neurology in Bern, under the direction of Dr. Ines Debove, together with filmmaker Bettina Rotzetter, portrayed this Parkinson’s sufferer. Thanks to pasta art, Urs Bratschi is able to cope better with his disease, as he tells us in “Feeding the Spark.” Creativity can help to concentrate on what still works, agree the three Parkinson’s experts Ines Debove (neurologist, Inselspital Bern), Marie Maradan-Gachet (neuropsychologist, Inselspital Bern) and Blanca T.M. Spee (Researcher art, creativity and Parkinson’s, RadboudUMC the Nederlands, University of Vienna): “The disease is given less space, as the affected people enjoy what they are doing and create new things with almost childlike joy.” The form of expression itself is almost secondary. It is anchored in the preferences and biography of the individual patient. What is decisive is the passion with which “something new” is created, the joy of creating, the putting aside of everyday problems, as the short film impressively illustrates. Art can arise anywhere and be anything – a painting, a melody or just: Pasta!