Our guest on this episode of the Dancing into Brain Health Podcast is artist and dementia advocate Mark Timmons. He has channeled his own lived experience, as someone diagnosed with early-onset dementia in his late 40s, to influence his ongoing advocacy work with people newly diagnosed with dementia.

Together we discuss the ways we can support nurturing a new sense of purpose, agency and meaning and how engaging in creative expression supports brain health and a new identity when navigating the experience of dementia.

Check out highlights from our culminating celebration with the New York Memory Center and join us in preparing for the United Nations General Assembly Healing Arts Week

In this episode, we are joined by neuropsychologist and researcher, Dr. Kaitlin Casaletto. Together we discuss the latest research on how engaging in physical activity can protect our brains as we age and explore new avenues of research and practice on the horizon.

Celebrate World Brain Day, join us for upcoming dance and brain health events and learn about our new “Community of Practice”!

In this month’s issue, read about NYC older adults coming together “Raising their Voices”, join us in celebrating Pride with LGBTQIA+ elders who paved the way and learn ways researchers and community organizations are coming together to ensure this community receives the services they deserve as they age.

Our guest this episode is cognitive scientist Dr. Helena Blumen. Dr.Blumen is one of the leading researchers investigating the trajectories of modifiable risk factors of the brain in aging and Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias

In our conversation, Dr. Blumen highlights the strong interconnections between our motor, social and cognitive abilities and how addressing any of these benefits our brain health as we age.

In this month’s issue, we visit Lima, Peru where I joined global leaders this May, to share best practices in brain health and dementia research and identify next steps for our respective and collaborative initiatives.

In this episode, we are joined by dancer/researcher Dr. Aline Haas whose passion for dance and health has spearheaded initiatives that are addressing the many ways dance can enhance brain health as we age. Together, we inquire how can access to and research on dance and health be more equitable?

Dr. Glenna Batson, is one of the leaders who helped place the conversation of embodiment, neuroscience and dance on the map. In this latest episode of the “Dancing into Brain Health” Podcast, we  investigate the roots of these fields of study and explore how their interconnections have inspired some of the work in dance and neuroscience we see today.

This Earth Day, join us in embracing awe and wonder for our planet, our communities, our brains!

Celebrate Brain Awareness Month with us!

Dr. Garcia, a neurolinguist guides listeners on a journey into the world of embodied cognition, illuminating the instigators of language in the brain and what his team is learning by investigating the connections of motor-actions and action-based language in the brain.

Centering love as an action.

In this inaugural episode of Dancing into Brain Health, we uncover the ways dance might indeed help us speak. Our guest is neuroscientist and dancer Dr. Constantina Theofanopoulou whose research is uncovering the neural mechanisms behind how engaging in dance may actually support or even rehabilitate speech.

Nurturing “mutuality of being” through dance as we move into this new year.

Wishing you abundance of connection, joy, love and dance in the New Year!

Centering gratitude, collective care and support as we plan for our next steps together

Global Atlantic Fellows and staff join in a convening on catalyzing change exploring how creative approaches can help up navigate critical conversations in Chile

Learn more about this Queens-wide project to bring together communities of older adults and people living with dementia in conversation about dance, brain health and belonging.

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