Dance styles engage the brain in different ways depending on the movements, aesthetics, and emotions associated with the dance, according to a study published in Nature Communications. The findings ...

The brain dance is better than the twist, the macrena, the Texas 2-step, the cupid shuffle, or the 'YMCA'. Children of all ages have been doing the Brain Dance since 2000. Anne Green Gilbert developed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dancing is a whole-brain activity: from the moment you walk into the studio, your hippocampus, dopamine system, mirror neurons, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The emerging field of dance neuroscience is finding that dance, with its multifaceted demands, engages the mind as intensively as the body. A scene from “Epiphany Machine” at ...

To make sense of difficult science, Michael Kofi Esson often turns to art. When he's struggling to understand the immune system or a rare disease, music and poetry serve as an anchor. "It helps calm ...

A treadmill trains your body. A crossword trains your mind. Dance, it turns out, trains the whole human being. Dancing is a whole-brain activity: from the moment you walk into the studio, your ...