Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: epiphany

  • Can the neuroaesthetics response unleash a path to psychosis?

    C. Ann ConnCovington, Louisiana, United States How does the brain perceive beauty and what is the biology of transcendent artistic appreciation? Is this epiphanic reaction hijacked during delusional thinking and psychosis? Perhaps the emerging field of neuroaesthetics can offer clues. After I witnessed the transformation and fall of my two sons, Austin and Colin, into…