Livestream Event March 3, 2015 Dancing with Parkinson’s at Canada’s National Ballet School...

Livestream EventMarch 3, 2015

Dancing with Parkinson’s at Canada’s National Ballet School

(DwP@NBS)

Balance and posture improved by DwP@NBS(10 weeks starting Sept 17th, 2013)

Balance and posture improved by DwP@NBS(10 weeks starting Sept 17th, 2013)

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Balance and posture improved by DwP@NBS(10 weeks starting Sept 17th, 2013)

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Quality of Life after 10 weeks exactly the same as previous studies of 32 and 68 weeks

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People with PD Visualizing Their Dance

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People with PD Visualizing Their Dance

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People with PD Visualizing Their Dance

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Dance helps because it is changing the brain!

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Rachel Bar (Canada’s National Ballet School)

Katherine McDonald, Samantha Leung, Hedi Tehrani, Gaby Levkov, Paula Di Nota, Paul Dhami, Ruth-Anne Andrews,

Michael Olshansky, Charles Leger, Nevena Savija, Debora Rabinovich, Rebecca Barnstaple, Dr. Larissa

Vingilis-Jaremko

Current collaborators:

Dr. Sylvain Moreno, Baycrest, Rotman Research Institute

Dr. Peter Whitehouse, Baycrest / Case Western Reserve Univ.

Dr. Gunnar Blohm, Queen’s University

Dr. Aarlenne Khan, U of Montreal

Dr. Michael Barnett-Cowan, U of Waterloo

Dr. Nigel Turner, Centre for Addiction & Mental Health (CAMH)

Dr. Douglas Cheyne, University of Toronto, Sick Children’s Hospital

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