The Los Angeles Tmes reports on the use of visual arts to help treat and understand migraines:

Increasingly, instead of struggling to explain with words, people with these illnesses are producing art that does a better job.

The artists begin to feel less isolated and alone. Their doctors get a better understanding of the symptoms they are trying to treat. And researchers gain new insights into how some neurological diseases affect the brain.

Read more here:  http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-diseases-art-migraines-20110523,0,4140375.story