The Dancing Brain: Structural and Functional Signatures of Expert Dance Training.

ABSTRACT: Dance - as a ritual, therapy, and leisure activity - has been known for thousands of years. Today, dance is increasingly used as therapy for cognitive and neurological disorders such as dementia and Parkinson's disease. Surprisingly, the effects of dance training on the healthy young brain are not well understood despite the necessity of such information for planning successful clinical interventions. Therefore, this study examined actively performing, expert-level trained college students as a model of long-term exposure to dance training. To study the long-term effects of dance training on the human brain, we compared 20 young expert female Dancers with normal body mass index with 20 age- and education-matched Non-Dancers with respect to brain structure and function. We used diffusion te

SUBMITTER: Burzynska AZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5711858 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature