This week’s Sunday Neurobics took us on a trip to La Jolla Cove, CA for a Swing Band concert! Music does wonderful things for our brains. Functional MRIs images of brains while passively listening to music show multiple areas lit up at once! Add dancing to the mix and you get a real brain workout!
The baby sea gull was just too cute to leave out!
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Cranium Crunches
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