2026 McGovern Lecture

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Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine
School of Medicine (SOM)

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Your Brain on Art

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Susan Magsamen
Register at: https://trentcenter.duke.edu/mcgovern Susan Magsamen, author of "Your Brain on Art" will deliver the 2026 Trent Center McGovern Lecture on Wednesday, April 15th, 2026. She is the founder and executive director of the International Arts + Mind Lab (IAM Lab), Center for Applied Neuroaesthetics, a groundbreaking neuroaesthetics initiative at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her work focuses on how the arts and aesthetic experiences measurably change the brain, body, and behavior, and how this knowledge can be translated to inform health, wellbeing, and learning programs in medicine, public health, and education.

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