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Washington University ‘Memory Hackers’ featured on PBS/NOVA

Washington University research on Jake Hausler, a St. Louis child with Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory, will be featured on the PBS/NOVA special “Memory Hackers.”

Several Washington University in St. Louis faculty will be featured in a new NOVA special on the science of human memory scheduled to air Wednesday, Feb. 10, on PBS stations across the nation. In the program, titled “Memory Hackers,” NOVA explores the cutting edge frontiers of cognitive science and molecular biology, where neuroscientists are probing […]

Dancing To Ease Disease: Tango With A Beneficial Beat

Instructor Laura Richling leads a dance class for Parkinson’s disease patients and their caregivers at Hartford Hospital’s Movement Disorders Center in Vernon. Richling is affiliated with Dancing with Parkinson’s Disease, based in Brooklyn, N.Y., and the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven. (Cloe Poisson / cpoisson@courant.com)

More and more doctors are writing an unusual prescription for their patients withParkinson’s disease: Go out dancing and call me in the morning. A growing body of research suggests that dance, notably the tango, can improve balance, strength and walking ability in people with neurological disorders, including Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, […]