September 10, 2009
My favorite graduate courses were the neuroscience courses. It fascinated me how the brain was organized, how it functioned, and how this incredibly complex and dynamic organism could be broken down and understood in simpler parts. Amazing. And now that I work with trauma-influenced children, I’ve learned much more about neurodevelopment. I have had first-hand […]
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May 4, 2009
All three of these links are related to the story of Snowball, the parrot who “dances” to music. This research has some interesting implications for understanding how and why rhythm influences movement patterns: gross motor, fine motor, and speech production. 1) Scientists: Some animals able to “dance” to music 2) Remarkable dancing birds: A cure […]
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