The Department of Neurosciences Presented:

The Educational Workshop on Anxiety and Art Therapy

The educational workshop on anxiety and art therapy was held with the attempts of Neurosciences Department of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences.

According to WebDa, the workshop was held on October 20^th in Imam Reza Hall of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences with the orientations toward Neurobiology of Anxiety, the Role of Art Therapy in Neurosciences, Relieving Society’s Anxiety, the Psychology of Anxiety and the Application of Art Therapy in Improving Anxiety in Kids and Teenagers.

Professor Gorji, the head of Neuroscience Department of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences said: the one day workshop of “Anxiety and Art Therapy” emphasizes on the role of art in relieving anxiety in life. No matter willingly or unwillingly, today’s life involves so much tensions all through the day. There should be some plans predicted to decrease tensions in life.

Professor Gorji asserted: stress, tension and anxiety are among today’s life problems for all humans such that they fully occupy our mind and thoughts 24 hours a day.

He added: the problem is critical when these tensions become permanent and persistent and appear chronically such that the normal flow of one’s life is interrupted, which accompanies and brings about anxiety induced diseases. Thus the treatment would be so hard and even impossible in some cases.

Professor Gorji, who is also the professor of Munster University in Germany, added: a lot of physical problems (like diabetes, gastrointestinal ailments, etc.) are resulted from tension and anxiety. Sometimes, curing anxiety-driven problems would take long periods of hospitalization.

He pointed out that: art therapy teaches us how to create relaxing moments for our lives with the help of art and its various dimensions to discharge these mental life tensions and foster the essential power and energy to start a new working day in that individual.

The head of Neuroscience Department of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences averred: this workshop was held on October 20^th at 2 pm under the pretext of inaugurating Neurosciences Department of Medical School. It’s also open to the public so that those families who have no clue about the tensions in their school kids gain more insights on them and become familiar with the ways to fight against them.