A research team at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, working with the Hospital Sant Pau in Barcelona, has shown that theater can improve the emotional well‐being of people with Parkinson’s disease. The study, “Efficacy of a theatre‐based intervention in patients with Parkinson’s disease,” which has been published in the journal Arts & Health, has provided the first evaluation of the combined effects of active and passive participation in theater activities on these patients’ emotional and cognitive health and quality of life.
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