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Milieux, front and centre. Step up to brain health.

Concordia in the news
Posted on April 6, 2016

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  • Vie des Arts writes about and links to a story about Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia, which officially launched last week. Milieux interim co-director, Bart Simon is quoted.
  • The recent work of Jason Steffener, affiliate assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and researcher at Concordia's PERFORM Centre, looking at the value of exercise for brain health, was featured in a live morning broadcast today on Japan's Fuji Network (no link available). The study, published in the journal Neurobiology of Aging, described how education, combined with simple physical activity such as taking the stairs, can significantly slow aging of the brain.