How does dancing promote brain reconditioning in the elderly?

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue FEB, 2013, Pages

  Foster, Philip P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DANCING; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXERCISE; EYE TRACKING; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MEMORY; MOTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSIC; NOTE; PERCEPTION; PERFUSION; RESPONSE TIME; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84883522093     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2013.00004     Document Type: Note

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