Walking slowly at age 45 could be a sign of accelerated aging
How fast you walk can be used as an indicator of how fast you're aging, a new study finds.
Apr 8, 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 8, 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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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 5, 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 6, 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. ...
Dec 16, 2019
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An unexpected finding from the Scripps Research laboratory of Xiang-Lei Yang, Ph.D., has illuminated a potential strategy for treating the inherited neurological disease Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT), for which there is no approved ...
Nov 7, 2019
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Microsurgery is an intricate and challenging surgical technique that involves using miniature instruments and sutures as fine as a hair strand aided by sophisticated microscopes. In plastic surgery, microsurgery is used to ...
Oct 26, 2019
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Every year, approximately 17,000 new cases of spinal cord injury are reported in the United States. Recovering from an SCI can take a huge mental, emotional and physical toll on patients, but animal-assisted therapy may play ...
Sep 24, 2019
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