Issue 33 Dancing Through Life: New Therapy for Parkinson's Disease Introduction Dance is communication. People often communicate their feelings through body language – feelings of elation, discomfort, misery – but if body language is a whisper, dance can sound like someone is
Issue 33 Alien Hand Syndrome - Neurological Explanation and Medical Cause A 77-year-old woman is watching TV feeling relaxed after a long day. Suddenly, she is startled by a hand stroking her hair and face. The catch? It was her hand. This woman is suffering from a disease with a name straight out of a
snippet The Different Effects of Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinsonian and Essential Tremor Nearly one million people in the United States alone suffer from Parkinson’s disease (PD), an astounding number and one expected to double by 2040. Being the second most common neurodegenerative disease, understanding Parkinson’s disease and developing new treatments is critical [1]. One
snippet Seeing Faces: Face Pareidolia and its Connection to Parkinson’s Once you see it, you can’t stop seeing it. A frowny face on your outlet. A look of shock on your bowling ball. Even a colon and the letter D, “:D” – all these things were not designed after human faces, and yet, we
Issue 28 Special K: The Emergence of Psychedelic Healthcare Ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic, is notorious for its street reputation as an abused substance. Known by the general public as an illicit club drug, recreational users inhale, ingest, or inject
Issue 23 Kinesiology of Balance: Understanding Implications of Targeted Dance Therapy on Proprioception For some, balancing on one leg is easy. However, take away a person’s sight and this task becomes more challenging. Strip away a person’s sense of hearing as well, and the task that used to be “easy” is now quite difficult. How do dancers make the act of balancing seem so effortless?
Issue 20 Just Dance, It'll be Okay It starts with the hand lift – the body moves with the melody while the mind thinks about a feeling that has yet to be worked and the lungs breathe as they travel through space. Calmness, happiness, release.
Issue 18 Stimulating Developments in Parkinson’s Treatment Imagine you’ve been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. The symptoms start as a small shake in one of your hands, which gradually spreads and worsens [1]. You attribute it
Issue 12 Walking Away from Parkinson’s Transporting ourselves from one place to another can seem rather simple to the majority of individuals. We whiz from one class to the next without much conscious regard for our
Issue 4 The Placebo Effect: An Illusionary Treatment with Real Results Every year, over half a million Americans suffering from osteoarthritis undergo pain-reducing arthroscopic surgery of the knee [1]. Surgeons clean out loose fragments of cartilage surrounding the knee joint in
