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Podcast: Tiny Bites of Wagaliciousness
Episode: Music, Dancing, Your Brain, and You - Wellbeing Wisdom Tiny Bites Podcast
Description: You know scientists will study anything, right? And you know I’m a science nerd, right?
The other day I was talking with a couple of friends about music and dancing, and we realized that just watching someone dance made us all feel better.
A Columbia University neuroscientist studied the brains of dancers and declared that dancing is a pleasure double-play: music stimulates the brain’s pleasure centers and movement to that music releases endorphins, intensifying the pleasure. A study at Albert Einstein College of Medicine studied 11 types of physical activity and their effects on deve...