2023, 2024 Soriano CT, Hugenschmidt CE. Co-authored by Christina Soriano and Dr. Christina Hugenschmidt, A Support Group for People Living with Dementia: The Leader’s Manual is the comprehensive resource you need to lead meaningful support groups for those on the journey with Alzheimer’s disease or another type […]
March 18, 2023 Fanning JT, Barnstaple R, Babcock P, Black A, Collier N, Linville MC, McGee C, Morgan AR, Rice P, Thomas JT, Thumuluri D, Vogeley A, Laurita-Spanglet J, Hugenschmidt CE, Soriano CT. IMOVE evaluated the contributions of movement and social engagement to quality of […]
January 24, 2023 Hugenschmidt C, Ip E, Laurita-Spanglet J, Babcock P, Morgan A, Fanning J, King K, Thomas J, Soriano CT. In addition to cognitive impairment, people with Alzheimer’s disease (PWAD) experience neuropsychiatric symptoms (e.g., apathy, depression), altered gait, and poor balance that further diminish […]
Chapter from the book Dancing Across the Lifespan: Negotiating Age, Place, and Purpose Rebecca Barnstaple, Christina Hugenschmidt, and Christina Soriano also contributed a chapter in a new book! A growing body of evidence suggests that the skills required to meet the challenges associated with aging and […]
A Pilot Study January 14, 2022 Thumuluri D, Lyday R, Babcock P, Ip EH, Kraft RA, Laurienti PJ, Barnstaple R, Soriano CT, Hugenschmidt CE. Alzheimer’s disease has profound effects on quality of life, affecting not only cognition, but mobility and opportunities for social engagement. Dance […]
Published in Percussive Notes, April 2020 John R. Beck Beginning in 2015, HealthRHT-YHMS drumming facilitator John R. Beck and therapeutic harpist Ruth Moskop Ph.D. added interactive group drumming to the live music listening experiences offered at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Comprehensive Cancer Center in […]
Fall 2019 Alan Brown, Christina Soriano. This article describes a beginning-level university dance class with a literacy education focus in which sixteen male student-athletes engaged in readings and movement activities connecting poetry, dance, visual imagery, multimodal literacies, and brain-based learning. These university students took what […]
Life Skill: Improvisational Movement with Christina Soriano & Christina Hugenschmidt Get moving with Christina^2 and see how science and art collide. Christina Soriano is the director of the dance program and associate professor at Wake Forest University. She founded a program IMPROVment™ which is an […]
February 16, 2016 Batson G, Hugenschmidt CE, Soriano CT. Dance is a non-pharmacological intervention that helps maintain functional independence and quality of life in people with Parkinson’s disease (PPD). Results from controlled studies on group-delivered dance for people with mild-to-moderate stage Parkinson’s have shown statistically […]
September 2014 Batson, G, Migliarese S, Soriano CT, Burdette, J, Laurienti P. IGROOVE aims to fill a gap in the knowledge about the minimum number of weekly dance classes needed to see benefits in cognition and cardiorespiratory fitness by systematically exploring how the frequency of […]