independently prescribing schedule II drugs

may join a collaborative agreement voluntarily, but it is not required

push for legislation that would give NPs full practice authority in all 50 states.

creative thinking as the “entire set ofcognitive activities used by individualsaccording to a specific object, problem, andcondition, or a type of effort toward aparticular event and the problem based on thecapacity of the individuals”

why they should acquire creative andcritical thinking in order to protect themselvesin whatever situation may occur

don’t realizethat they are exposed

critical thinking to resist newinstruments of soft power (2)

mental health as pointed out by OECD

digital art,

ndicate the addictions that theInternet generates. Once the dependencies arefixed and eliminated,

digitalizationprocess is also reflected as an importantcomponent in the innovation development

STEAM education

reate new knowledge, which formsthe necessary qualities for faster socializatio

"How can art reflect and inform the public about policy-making agendas?" In it, the students had to collaborate across classrooms to create an art piece that had a message.

common image of the atom was WRONG, and that they needed to create a pitch for a better representation of it.

deep conceptual and interpretational thinking

Visual arts

exhibition raised relief money for the people of Guernica. Picasso’s painting helped bring worldwide attention to the controversies of the Spanish Civil War

improvements in disrupted functional connec-tivity of the DMN are associated with positive consequences forcognitive, emotional, and behavioural functions in various clinicaldisorders

lessconnectivity with other brain regions compared to T0

medial temporal lobes play a central role in memoryprocessing

resilience andfunctional connectivity of the PCC/preCUN in MTG and STG

suggesting that the MPFC is responsiblefor the successful cognitive regulation of emotions [49

prefrontal cortex, particularly BA8, 9, and 10, are robustly activated during introspection [8]

personal integrative experience - an experience of ‘‘flow,’’ - inwhich the participant is fully emerged in the creative activity [48]

mechanistic explanations, theproduction of visual art involves

unctional connectivity between the frontal, posterior, andtemporal cortices after the combination of physical exercises andcognitive training

The question of why the two groups demonstrated differentchanges in functional connectivity at rest remains open

possiblehabituations effects

valuative reception of artwork is anaesthetic experience, in which the parietal regions of the brain,especially the SPL, are associated with visuo-spatial explorationand attention [45]

recentmeta-analysis by Mihov et al. (2010) demonstrated a relativedominance of the right hemisphere during abstract thinking

improvement in the connectivity of the PCC/preCUN to thebilateral frontal cortices after producing visual art

training in avisual art production group enhances functional connectivity ofthe DMN, particularly between the parietal and frontal cortices.

ROI in the left hemisphere. Handedness was measured

resilience in relation to less DMN functional connectivity) wasobserved for the parietal cortex

greater resilience was associated with greater functionalconnectivity of the DMN with STG and MTG

(greater resilience in relation togreater PCC/preCUN functional connectivity

ROI around the S1/M1

ROI in the visual cortex.

cognitive art evaluation group had only significantly greaterfunctional connectivity from the right PCC/preCUN to SPL (BATable 1. Epidemiologic data.Visual art production Cognitive art evaluation TotalNumber of participants 14 14 28Age 63.50 (63.80 SD) 63.93 (63.34 SD) 63.71 (63.52 SD)Sex Female 8 7 15Male 6 7 13Handedness Right- handed 11 13 24Left- handed 1 1 2Ambidextrous 2 0 2Education Low 5 0 5Middle 6 5 11High 3 9 12Retired since 0–12 months 9 6 1512–24 months 2 3 524–36 months 3 5 8Number of attendances 6 sessions 0 1 17 sessions 2 3 58 sessions 1 3 49 sessions 5 3 810 sessions 6 4 10doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0101035.t001Art and the Brain

epidemiological dataare presented as mean 6 SD and the psychological data as mean6 SEM

hemispheric specialization and creative thinking, thePCC/preCUN coordinates were located in both hemispheres

we were able to locate therelevant brain regions of activations of functional connectivity[25]

Such methodologicalconcepts might improve the art experience [22], [23], [24

keep their eyes closed during the scan

Excluded from participation were professional visualartists and art historians, as well as people suffering from seriousphysical or mental disorders or taking psychotropic drugs

DMN is characterized bypositive and negative connectivity between the dorsal and ventralmedial prefrontal cortex (MPFC), the medial parietal cortex(posterior and anterior cingulate cortex (PCC; ACC), precuneus(preCUN)), and the inferior parietal cortex during rest [7], [10],[11], [12]

activation of the reward circuitby visual art perception for example [6]

e visual art production group showed greater spatial improvement infunctional connectivity of PCC/preCUN to the frontal and parietal cortices

posterior cingulated cortex (PCC/preCUN)

10-week-long art interventions.

In this case, for a test to be statistically significant, p-value must be lower than 0.05.

We are 99% confident that the true average “attitude” difference betweenliving environments is between 1.32 and 7.88. At a significance level of 0.01we can say that living in a minority environment is associated with higherscore

more civic engagement and civic-minded behavior

economically disadvantaged homes

involved in arts or athletics show greater success on standardized tests than their peers who do not participate in such activities

improved social and emotional skills

The arts are what make us most human, most complete as people.”

vast evidence to the contrary.

remedial instruction.

how school subjects connect to the greater world