Excerpt from Why Dancing Is the Best Thing You Can Do For Your Body by Markham Heid | July 5, 2017 | Time.com Dance floors tend to be sweaty places for a reason. All of those shimmies and shakes burn energy like you wouldn’t believe—and come with many other surprising health benefits, too. When you…
Excerpt from Dancing can reverse the signs of aging in the brain By Tania Fitzgeorge-Balfour | Posted on August 29, 2017 in Neuroscience Story in Brief: Physical exercise has an anti-aging effect on the hippocampus region of the brain – an area that controls memory, learning and balance. A new study, comparing different forms of…
Excerpt from Scientists Investigate Health Benefits Of Music, Rhythm and Movement by Sorcha Pollak | The Irish Times | Tue, Jan 14, 2014, 01:00 NUI Maynooth has announced its involvement in a €3 million EU-funded project investigating whether music and rhythm can help improve mobility. The project, known as BeatHealth, will examine both patients with…
by David Kohn | photo by Toni Gauthier
Neuroscientists haven’t really explored how movement and thought interact, largely because it’s hard for anyone to leap, twist and turn while lying flat in an MRI tube, or connected to a tangle of wires. But with the help of new mobile brain imaging technology, a Maryland researcher now has the beginnings of an answer.
Excerpt from Neuroscientists Reveal The Number One Exercise For Slowing Down The Aging Process by Justin Brown | November 7, 2017 | Ideapod At a certain point in our lives all of us develop a negative relationship with the mirror on the wall. It just keeps showing too many lines, too many grey hairs and…
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