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August 2025 Edition: Celebrating Community

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

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June 2025 Edition: Raising Our Voices Together

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.

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Dancing into Brain Health (S1 Ep5): Dancing Towards Connection w/ Dr. Helena Blumen

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.

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May 2025 Edition: A Global Movement Toward Brain Health

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.

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Dancing into Brain Health (S1 Ep4): Amazonian Dance for Parkinson’s w/ Dr. Aline Haas

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?

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Dancing into Brain Health (S1 Ep3): Moving Toward Embodiment w/ Dr. Glenna Batson

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.

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Dancing into Brain Health (S1 Ep1): Dancing into Speech Improvement w/ Dr. Constantina Theofanopoulou

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.

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