Art therapy as a comprehensive complementary treatment for Parkinson’s disease
IntroductionParkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most prevalent neurodegenerative disease. Complementary and alternative therapies are increasingly utilized to address its complex multisystem symptomatology. Art therapy involves motoric action and visuospatial processing while promoting broad biop...
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| author | Tom Ettinger Marygrace Berberian Ikuko Acosta Alberto Cucca Alberto Cucca Andrew Feigin Danilo Genovese Travis Pollen Julianne Rieders Rohita Kilachand Clara Gomez Girija Kaimal Milton Biagioni Alessandro Di Rocco Felice M. Ghilardi John-Ross Rizzo |
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| description | IntroductionParkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most prevalent neurodegenerative disease. Complementary and alternative therapies are increasingly utilized to address its complex multisystem symptomatology. Art therapy involves motoric action and visuospatial processing while promoting broad biopsychosocial wellness. The process involves hedonic absorption, which provides an escape from otherwise persistent and cumulative PD symptoms, refreshing internal resources. It involves the expression in nonverbal form of multilayered psychological and somatic phenomena; once these are externalized in a symbolic arts medium, they can be explored, understood, integrated, and reorganized through verbal dialogue, effecting relief and positive change.Methods42 participants with mild to moderate PD were treated with 20 sessions of group art therapy. They were assessed before and after therapy with a novel arts-based instrument developed to match the treatment modality for maximum sensitivity. The House-Tree-Person PD Scale (HTP-PDS) assesses motoric and visuospatial processing–core PD symptoms–as well as cognition (thought and logic), affect/mood, motivation, self (including body-image, self-image, and self- efficacy), interpersonal functioning, creativity, and overall level of functioning. It was hypothesized that art therapy will ameliorate core PD symptoms and that this will correlate with improvements in all other variables.ResultsHTP-PDS scores across all symptoms and variables improved significantly, though causality among variables was indeterminate.DiscussionArt therapy is a clinically efficacious complementary treatment for PD. Further research is warranted to disentangle causal pathways among the aforementioned variables, and additionally, to isolate and examine the multiple, discrete healing mechanisms believed to operate simultaneously in art therapy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-aaa65a3f580b4814ac6dfdf6644872092023-05-12T14:09:42ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Human Neuroscience1662-51612023-05-011710.3389/fnhum.2023.11105311110531Art therapy as a comprehensive complementary treatment for Parkinson’s diseaseTom Ettinger0Marygrace Berberian1Ikuko Acosta2Alberto Cucca3Alberto Cucca4Andrew Feigin5Danilo Genovese6Travis Pollen7Julianne Rieders8Rohita Kilachand9Clara Gomez10Girija Kaimal11Milton Biagioni12Alessandro Di Rocco13Felice M. Ghilardi14John-Ross Rizzo15Steinhardt Graduate Art Therapy Program, New York University, New York, NY, United StatesSteinhardt Graduate Art Therapy Program, New York University, New York, NY, United StatesSteinhardt Graduate Art Therapy Program, New York University, New York, NY, United StatesDepartment of Neurology, The Marlene and Paolo Fresco Institute for Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, United StatesDoctoral Program in Neural and Cognitive Neurosciences, Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, ItalyDepartment of Neurology, The Marlene and Paolo Fresco Institute for Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, United StatesDepartment of Neurology, The Marlene and Paolo Fresco Institute for Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, United StatesDepartment of Exercise Science, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesDepartment of Neurology, The Marlene and Paolo Fresco Institute for Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, United StatesSteinhardt Graduate Art Therapy Program, New York University, New York, NY, United StatesSteinhardt Graduate Art Therapy Program, New York University, New York, NY, United StatesCreative Arts Therapies, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesDepartment of Neurology, The Marlene and Paolo Fresco Institute for Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, United StatesZucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell, New York, NY, United StatesDepartment of Neurology, The Marlene and Paolo Fresco Institute for Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, United StatesDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, United StatesIntroductionParkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most prevalent neurodegenerative disease. Complementary and alternative therapies are increasingly utilized to address its complex multisystem symptomatology. Art therapy involves motoric action and visuospatial processing while promoting broad biopsychosocial wellness. The process involves hedonic absorption, which provides an escape from otherwise persistent and cumulative PD symptoms, refreshing internal resources. It involves the expression in nonverbal form of multilayered psychological and somatic phenomena; once these are externalized in a symbolic arts medium, they can be explored, understood, integrated, and reorganized through verbal dialogue, effecting relief and positive change.Methods42 participants with mild to moderate PD were treated with 20 sessions of group art therapy. They were assessed before and after therapy with a novel arts-based instrument developed to match the treatment modality for maximum sensitivity. The House-Tree-Person PD Scale (HTP-PDS) assesses motoric and visuospatial processing–core PD symptoms–as well as cognition (thought and logic), affect/mood, motivation, self (including body-image, self-image, and self- efficacy), interpersonal functioning, creativity, and overall level of functioning. It was hypothesized that art therapy will ameliorate core PD symptoms and that this will correlate with improvements in all other variables.ResultsHTP-PDS scores across all symptoms and variables improved significantly, though causality among variables was indeterminate.DiscussionArt therapy is a clinically efficacious complementary treatment for PD. Further research is warranted to disentangle causal pathways among the aforementioned variables, and additionally, to isolate and examine the multiple, discrete healing mechanisms believed to operate simultaneously in art therapy.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1110531/fullart therapyParkinson’s diseaseneurodegenerative disorderart makingart based assessment |
| spellingShingle | Tom Ettinger Marygrace Berberian Ikuko Acosta Alberto Cucca Alberto Cucca Andrew Feigin Danilo Genovese Travis Pollen Julianne Rieders Rohita Kilachand Clara Gomez Girija Kaimal Milton Biagioni Alessandro Di Rocco Felice M. Ghilardi John-Ross Rizzo Art therapy as a comprehensive complementary treatment for Parkinson’s disease Frontiers in Human Neuroscience art therapy Parkinson’s disease neurodegenerative disorder art making art based assessment |
| title | Art therapy as a comprehensive complementary treatment for Parkinson’s disease |
| title_full | Art therapy as a comprehensive complementary treatment for Parkinson’s disease |
| title_fullStr | Art therapy as a comprehensive complementary treatment for Parkinson’s disease |
| title_full_unstemmed | Art therapy as a comprehensive complementary treatment for Parkinson’s disease |
| title_short | Art therapy as a comprehensive complementary treatment for Parkinson’s disease |
| title_sort | art therapy as a comprehensive complementary treatment for parkinson s disease |
| topic | art therapy Parkinson’s disease neurodegenerative disorder art making art based assessment |
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