ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2023
Virtual Art Therapy: Application of Michelangelo Effect to Neurorehabilitation of Patients with Stroke.
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- Bringing the museum into the hospital to promote cultural wellness in patients undergoing haemodialysis through a virtual reality tour.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Factors Influencing Virtual Art Therapy in Patients with Stroke.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Applying a Virtual Art Therapy System Based on the Michelangelo Effect in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Beauty in the shadow of neurodegenerative disease: a narrative review on aesthetic experience, neural mechanisms, and therapeutic frontiers.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Review
- Efficacy of a Virtual Reality Rehabilitation Protocol Based on Art Therapy in Patients with Stroke: A Single-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- The Use of Head-Mounted Display Systems for Upper Limb Kinematic Analysis in Post-Stroke Patients: A Perspective Review on Benefits, Challenges and Other Solutions.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Michelangelo Effect in Cognitive Rehabilitation: Using Art in a Digital Visuospatial Memory Task.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Your brain on art, nature, and meditation: a pilot neuroimaging study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- Case report: when art is faced with brain surgery: acute change in creative style in a painter after glioma resection.Frontiers in oncology · 2024Article
- Michelangelo Effect in Virtual Sculpturing: Prospective for Motor Neurorehabilitation in the Metaverse.Journal of cognition · 2024Article
- The Role of Innovation Technology in the Rehabilitation of Patients Affected by Huntington's Disease: A Scoping Review.Biomedicines · 2023Article
- Integrating art therapy and technology in neurorehabilitation: a scoping review.Frontiers in neurologyReview
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Abstract
In neurorehabilitation, some studies reported the effective use of art therapy for reducing psychological disorders and for enhancing physical functions and cognitive abilities. Neuroaesthetical studies showed that seeing an art masterpiece can spontaneously elicit a widespread brain arousal, also involving motor networks. To combine contemplative and performative benefits of art therapy protocols, we have developed an immersive virtual reality system, giving subjects the illusion that they are able to paint a copy of famous artistic paintings. We previously observed that during this virtual task, subjects perceived less fatigue and performed more accurate movements than when they were asked to color the virtual canvas. We named this upshot the Michelangelo effect. The aim of this study was to test the rehabilitative efficacy of our system. Ten patients with stroke in the subacute phase were enrolled and trained for one month with virtual art therapy (VAT) and physiotherapy. Their data were compared with those of ten patients matched for pathology, age and clinical parameters, trained only with conventional therapy for the same amount of time. The VAT group showed a significantly higher improvements in the Barthel Index score, a measure of independency in activities of daily living (66 ± 33% vs. 31 ± 28%,
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