According to the journal Nature, researchers found that doing something creative helped to slow brain aging—and dancing Argentine tango worked better at this than playing music, making art or playing video games! You can read the article here.
On top of that, the more adept the tango dancer is, the younger the brain compared to the expected age. The study notes that the experts at tango had brains that averaged seven years younger than their chronological age! We now all have a good reason to:
continue (or start) dancing tango!
improve our tango level!
Let’s do it! You can get the citation for the original article, as well as further interesting articles on aging and the brain at the website I linked above.
See you in class tonight!