I found a number of research studies that have been conducted regarding how
dance is the best activity for brain health--boosting our memory and
reducing risks for dementia upwards of 76%!!

As I age in years, I like so many of us want to retain a healthy body and
mind.  I'm not sure how many dance steps I would need to do that would cure
my chronic "where have I left my keys now?" syndrome.  But who knows?

The research that was reported in New England Journal of Medicine shows that
learning dance steps is key to exercising your brain and boosting memory
power, better than playing a musical instrument, doing crossword puzzles
etc.!

And that's not all, research also indicates that through movement
coordination found in dance we increase our ability to process information
more efficiently and quickly.  Motor "thinking" helps with our brain
thinking!!  When you can't wrap your head around some problem and it feels
overwhelming, then its take to dance!

If you are scientifically inclined here are the reasons for dance being so
powerful of a memory booster.  It has to do with the constant changing from
right and left sides of the body which exercises both hemispheres of our
brain along with engaging our limbic/emotional center.

And the correlation between increased mental processing ability and motor
expressivity is that our cerebellum, our "movement brain" which is only 1/3
the size of total brain size yet hosts 50% of the neurons and is intimately
linked to our cerebral cortex or thinking brain. So our movement brain
primes our thinking brain.  So Descartes move over because, "I move,
therefore I am"

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