This Saturday, January 14, a first meeting was organized between Art For Science and around forty Saint-Martin artists for a conference on art and the brain. A great success for this event, the conference room of the Samanna pavilion was packed.
The conference, in partnership with Focus Magazine, began with the presentation of the Art For Science association by the co-founder, Mélanie Dal Gobbo, who also lent her voice to her partner Thomas Roubira, a top athlete who suffered a amputation of part of his leg following foot cancer, which led him to discover disabled sports which he actively promoted and, a few years later, the amputation of the left hemisphere of his brain due to 'a tumor. After the ablation of the latter, Thomas Roubira used art to stimulate the right part of his brain. During the videoconference with Jean-Philippe Hugnot, cellular neurobiologist and Lecturer in Neurosciences and Cellular Biology at the University of Montpellier 2, part of the neuroscientific team of Art for Science with Professor and neurosurgeon Hugues Duffau, the assembly made up of artists, photographers, directors, painters, art teachers and even singer-songwriters discovered the powers and benefits of art on the brain, as well as the functioning and functional and anatomical plasticity of it. The brain only needs three seconds to decide whether it likes a work of art or not. Abstract art being the most stimulating for the brain, which is fond of novelties in order to find something familiar there, Thomas Roubira, assisted by Mélanie Dal Gobbo, his family and those close to him, "consumed" art intensively for three months, which allowed him, at the time, to recover 90% of his cognitive abilities. Scientifically proven, abstract art reduces symptoms related to Alzheimer's disease, just as dancing the tango has a beneficial impact on patients with Parkinson's disease. Art For Science, created in 2019 and which now has 75 volunteers, is fighting three battles: defending and telling the powers of everyone's brain, revealing that art is a source of brain stimulation, and finally, protecting and helping researchers who are struggling against brain tumors in adults and children, with or without drug solutions. The participants in this unique meeting then asked various questions to Jean-Philippe Hugnot who did not fail to recall that “the brain only wears out if it is not used”. The artists present were invited to join the association in order to create works related to the subject of the conference. These will be exhibited and offered for sale at the next event organized by Art For Science on the occasion of World Art Day, on April 15th. _VX
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