To make sense of difficult science, Michael Kofi Esson often turns to art. When he's struggling to understand the immune system or a rare disease, music and poetry serve as an anchor. "It helps calm ...

The brain dance is better than the twist, the macrena, the Texas 2-step, the cupid shuffle, or the 'YMCA'. Children of all ages have been doing the Brain Dance since 2000. Anne Green Gilbert developed ...

Be it music or paintings or dance — or any form of art — there’s now myriad research to show that when one’s brain is exposed to this kind of stimulation, it reacts in a uniquely positive way. And on ...

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