Health
Why wellness is connected to the body's underappreciated connective tissue
If you're in pain or experiencing pain or limited mobility, you may suspect a problem with your muscles or joints.
Jan 23, 2024
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News tagged with human mobility
Medical economics
Pandemic lessons: Insights into how mobility restrictions affect health care costs
As the world grappled with lockdowns and restrictions brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University conducted an extensive study to elucidate the link between changes in human mobility and ...
Dec 22, 2023
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Ophthalmology
Light color is less important for the internal clock than originally thought, study finds
Vision is a complex process. The visual perception of the environment is created by a combination of different wavelengths of light, which are decoded as colors and brightness in the brain. Photoreceptors in the retina first ...
Dec 22, 2023
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Health informatics
Nationwide study redefines how food environment impacts cardiometabolic diseases
Cardiometabolic disease (CMD) is an umbrella term that includes conditions such as obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, and hypertension. Unfortunately, many adults in the United States have CMDs and the rates are on the ...
Nov 20, 2023
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Neuroscience
Screen-printed, flexible sensors allow earbuds to record brain activity and exercise levels
A pair of earbuds can be turned into a tool to record the electrical activity of the brain as well as levels of lactate in the body with the addition of two flexible sensors screen-printed onto a stamp-like flexible surface.
Sep 28, 2023
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Genetics
Gene mutation may explain why some don't get sick from COVID-19
People who contract COVID-19 but never develop symptoms—the so-called super dodgers—may have a genetic ace up their sleeve. They're more than twice as likely as those who become symptomatic to carry a specific gene variation ...
Jul 19, 2023
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Health
Mobile phone data used for public health underrepresent vulnerable populations, finds new study
Mobile phone data are increasingly used in public health management and disease outbreak response, as demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic when location data were used as a proxy for human movement and contacts and informed ...
Jul 6, 2023
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
A self-administered mobile app to detect Alzheimer's disease using speech data
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia. It is important to start intervention from an early stage, e.g., the mild cognitive impairment (MCI) stage, to prevent or delay the progression of AD. For the ...
May 11, 2023
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Gerontology & Geriatrics
Investigating use of voice assistant devices by older adults
Older adults use voice assistant devices more often with training and flyers with instructions to complement their daily routine, according to a new University of Michigan study that looked at long-term usage. The findings ...
Apr 21, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Smartphone study reveals that bodily rhythm affects behavior
Leiden researchers Arko Ghosh and Enea Ceolini analyzed the use data of hundreds of mobile phones and discovered that the body has rhythms ranging between seven and 52 days. These cycles influence how we behave. Their research ...
Apr 14, 2023
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