Dance and Brain Health
Solo or Group dance and its endless, positive therapeutic and healing effects
Medical Science’s many researches and amazing results re enforce what we’ve innately always felt and knew to be true.
The Brain Dance
Thomas W., Wellness Associate, Corporate Health Unlimited
Dance has been a spark of joy in this world for centuries and will be for centuries to come. Weddings, reunions, concerts, dates, birthday parties, no matter what the event, dancing is always involved. And who doesn’t have a smile on their face when they are dancing?!
The Science:
Recent discoveries in the world of dance have been shown to enhance a person’s mood, energy level, functional awareness, and overall cognitive function.
Couples dancing, such as ballroom, swing, and Latin dance, as well as fitness dance classes like Zumba have both proven to be extremely beneficial in an individual’s planning, coordination, and ability to carry out voluntary movements of the body.
Dancing causes the release of our “happy hormone” termed serotonin, lower stress levels, and aid in enhancing the overall health of the brain.
Dancing is one of the few physical activities that uses both sides of the brain at the same time. This makes it superior to other forms of exercise for creating new neural pathways to enhance memory retention, improvisation, and quick decision-making skills.
Because of these incredible benefits, dancing has been proven to slow the onset and continued progression of all forms of Dementia, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease included.
https://www.wellness360.fit/the-brain-dance/
Dancing may help to combat brain aging
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319181
The Surprising Psychological Benefits of Dance Therapy
https://www.shondaland.com/live/body/a30111576/psychological-benefits-of-dance-therapy/
Why Dancing Just Might Be the Best Workout That Ever Existed
Besides myriad health benefits for your mind and body, if there’s ever been a time when we could all use an ecstatic release, it’s now.
https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/health/a38584568/benefits-of-dancing/
https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcseriesblog/2016/04/04/keep-dancing-turns-good-brain/
https://www.healthline.com/health/fitness-exercise/benefits-of-dance
https://www.creativemoment.im/dancing/brainhealth/
https://ohmindstayhealthy.wordpress.com/2015/08/18/dance-your-way-to-better-mental-health/
https://iheartintelligence.com/dancing-benefits-your-brain/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/well/walk-stretch-or-dance-dancing-may-be-best-for-the-brain.html
https://thebestbrainpossible.com/dance-exercise-brain-mental-health/
https://uclartsandhealing.org/the-dancing-brain/
https://socialdance.stanford.edu/syllabi/smarter.htm
https://etdoutreach.org/2020/08/03/the-power-of-movement-in-a-virtual-world/
https://www.peterlovatt.com/dance-cure-launch/
A Practice-Inspired Mindset for Researching the Psychophysiological and Medical Health Effects of Recreational Dance (Dance Sport)
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.588948/full
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00305/full
In sum, the present results indicate that both dance and fitness training can induce hippocampal plasticity in the elderly, but only dance training improved balance capabilities.
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