Dr. Erich Jarvis

But if the speech pathways is next to the movement pathways, what I discover is by dancing, it is helping me think.

It is helping keeping my brain fresh.

It's not just moving my muscles.

I'm moving or using the circuitry in my brain to control a whole big body.

You need a lot of brain tissue to do that.

And so I argue, if you wanna stay cognitively intact into your old age, you better be moving and you better be doing it consistently, whether it's dancing, walking, running, and also practicing speech.

oratory speech and so forth or singing is controlling the brain circuits that are moving your facial musculature.

And it's going to keep your cognitive circuits also in tune.

And I'm convinced of that from my own personal experience.

Thank you for inviting me here to get the word out to the community of what's going on in the science world.