Dancing keeps brain’s white matter together The alternative is that as you get older, the white matter in your brain gets thinner, and there goes a lot of your higher functions.
Dancing can keep you young at Heart? At any rate, it can’t hurt. Unless you’re dancing on the edge of a razor, perhaps.
http://source.colostate.edu/study-dancing-may-offset-effects-aging-brain.
Just trying to clear up some space in my outbox.
Same thing we do every night, Pinkie – SING!!!
Okay, if you caught the reference to Pinkie and the Brain, you probably already like to do stuff that stimulates the neurons with witty references to arcane bits of history, pop culture, and the like. So you won’t be terribly disappointed if I caper about with just a few links to reports on and research on how singing benefits the brain and the lives of those who sing.
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4448634.stm
How singing makes you happy (summary article and its sources below:
Can Music provoke involuntary body responses? Now I’ve heard everything – using music to provoke salivation!
