Health
Playing hunger games: Are gamified health apps putting odds in your favor?
For many people, finding motivation to exercise is a challenge. Thankfully, there are Zombies chasing you.
Aug 21, 2014
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Health
Life-changing events can lead to less physical activity
Adults tend to engage in less leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) after changes in both lifestyle and physical status, finds a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Jun 6, 2014
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Health
Mobile health apps lack behavior-change techniques
Behavior-change techniques are not well represented in the marketing materials for top-rated physical-activity apps, according to a team of Penn State researchers.
May 6, 2014
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Autism spectrum disorders
Parental obesity and autism risk in the child
Several studies have looked at possible links between maternal obesity during pregnancy and the risk of developmental disorders in the child. However, paternal obesity could be a greater risk factor than maternal obesity, ...
Apr 7, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Chronic aggressive behavior in boys: Epigenetic sources?
Chronic aggressive behaviour exhibited by some boys from disadvantaged families may be due to epigenetic changes during pregnancy and early childhood. This is highlighted by two studies conducted by a team led by Richard ...
Sep 23, 2013
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Medical research
First proteomic analysis of birth defect demonstrates power of a new technique
The first proteomic analysis of an animal model of a rare, sometimes deadly birth defect, Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome (SLOS), has revealed that the molecular mechanisms that cause it are more complex than previously understood. ...
Sep 11, 2013
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Cardiology
Many stroke, heart-attack survivors make no changes after event
There's no stronger scare tactic into leading a healthy lifestyle than suffering a heart attack or stroke, which is why it may be surprising that many survivors don't make changes needed to improve their health.
Aug 16, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
Vigorous exercise cuts womb cancer risk in overweight women by more than a third
Overweight women who take regular intense exercise cut their risk of developing endometrial cancer, the most common form of womb cancer, by more than a third (39 per cent) , according to research published in the British ...
Aug 13, 2013
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Genetics
Epigenetic changes to fat cells following exercise
Exercise, even in small doses, changes the expression of our innate DNA. New research from Lund University in Sweden has described for the first time what happens on an epigenetic level in fat cells when we undertake physical ...
Jul 3, 2013
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Neuroscience
Brain re-training may improve memory, focus in schizophrenia
Much like physical exercise can re-chisel the body, researchers hope targeted mental workouts can sharpen the memory, focus and function of adults with schizophrenia.
Jun 19, 2013
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