A recent study among three- to seven-year-old children shows that children's motor skills benefit if a child was older and participated in organised sports. Additionally, the study provided information about the importance ...
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Doctors have relentlessly impressed upon us the many benefits of exercise. Energy, mood, sleep and motor skills all improve with a regular fitness regimen that includes activities such as running. This has become of particular ...
May 04, 2020
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How fast you walk can be used as an indicator of how fast you're aging, a new study finds.
Apr 08, 2020
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It's a self-perpetuating cycle: Kids with developmental disabilities face challenges in building motor skills, which makes them less able to participate in routine physical activity, which gives them less opportunity to practice ...
Mar 25, 2020
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Many of us are spending a lot of time looking at our hands lately and we think we know them pretty well. But research from York University's Centre for Vision Research shows the way our brains perceive our hands is inaccurate.
Mar 24, 2020
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Voluntary motor movements rely on the corticospinal tract (CST)—a group of neuronal fibers in mammals that connect each side of the brain to the opposite side of the spinal cord, and ultimately to muscles. It contains about ...
Feb 05, 2020
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Therapeutic horseback riding combined with brain-building exercises can improve the dexterity, coordination and strength of children with neurodevelopmental disorders, shows a study in Frontiers in Veterinary Science.
Jan 31, 2020
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Scientists at the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health (CCCEH) have uncovered a link between prenatal exposure to phthalates—a ubiquitous group of plasticizers and odor-enhancing chemicals—and deficits ...
Jan 06, 2020
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A mother's obesity in pregnancy can affect her child's development years down the road, according to researchers who found impaired motor skills in preschoolers and lower IQ in middle childhood for boys whose mothers were ...
Dec 20, 2019
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Working in a highly successful collaboration between the Centre for Cancer Biology (a University of South Australia and SA Pathology alliance), the University of Adelaide, and the Women's and Children's Hospital, UniSA Ph.D. ...
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