Creative Minds, Younger Brains: Engaging in music, dance, painting or even (some) gaming is linked to delayed brain aging (Nature Portfolio: https://lnkd.in/e7qvMCqG).
Creative experiences were related to delayed brain aging across domains and in both expertise and short-term learning studies. The degree of expertise and pre-post learning both correlated with brain clocks. Creative experiences enhanced connectivity in brain regions vulnerable to aging. Neuroshynt meta-analysis evidence shows these areas are associated with multiple underlying processes linked to creativity. Biophysical modeling and graph theory showed increased local network efficiency and global coupling associated with delayed brain age.
Our work provides evidence of reduced accelerated aging in domain-free creativity, linked to expertise, experience, and underlying brain plasticity mechanisms.
Congrats Carlos Coronel and collaborators: Joaquín Migeot, Fernando Lehue, Lucía Amoruso, Natalia Kowalczyk-Grębska, PhD, Natalia Jakubowska, Kanad Mandke, PhD., Joana Pereira Seabra, Patricio Orio, Dominic Campbell, Raúl González Gómez, Pavel Prado, Jhosmary Cuadros, Enzo Tagliazucchi, Josefina Cruzat, Agustina Legaz, Vicente Medel, Hernan Hernandez, Sol Fittipaldi, Florencia Altschuler, Sebastian Moguilner, Sandra Báez, Hernando Santamaría-García, alfredis Gonzalez, Jasmin Bonilla Santos, Bahar Güntekin, Claudio Babiloni, Daniel Abásolo, Gaetano Di Caterina, Görsev Yener, Javier Escudero, John Fredy Ochoa-Gómez, Marcio Soto, Martin Alejandro Bruno, Pedro A. Valdes-Sosa, Renato Anghinah, MD, PhD, Rodrigo Gonzalez Montealegre, Ruaridh Clark, Adolfo Garcia, Laura Dr. Kaltwasser, Martin Schürmann, Jil Meier, Aneta Brzezicka, Robert Whelan, Brian Lawlor, Ian Robertson, Christopher Bailey, Lucia Melloni, Nisha Sajnani, PhD RDT-BCT