Can dancing improve your mental health?
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March 8, 2017 at 8:40 AM
Thought LeadersProfessor Peter Lovatt Reader and Principal Lecturer in PsychologyUniversity of Hertfordshire
An interview with Professor Peter Lovatt conducted by April Cashin-Garbutt, MA (Cantab)
What is dance psychology? What types of question are you trying to answer?
Dance psychology is the study of dance and dancers from a scientific and psychological perspective. What we're trying to understand is what happens when people dance and why, we are looking at it from a healthcare perspective, which might suggest dancing is good for you.
For instance, we are studying the effect of dancing on people with Parkinson's disease. What we're interested in is trying to understand why it is that when people with Parkinson's disease engage in recreational dance some of their symptoms reduce as a consequence of dancing. We're trying to understand why this is happening from a scientific perspective.
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