Psychology & Psychiatry
8 ways to manage body image anxiety after lockdown
Being able to socialize again may bring enthusiasm and a sense of normalcy—but it may also increase anxiety over how your body might have changed.
Jun 15, 2021
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News tagged with shape
Health
Why you might not be the body shape you think
Hourglass, bottom hourglass, top hourglass, spoon, rectangle, diamond, oval, triangle, and inverted triangle… there are nine official female body shape classifications.
May 14, 2021
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Genetics
A sibling-guided strategy to capture the 3D shape of the human face
A new strategy for capturing the 3D shape of the human face draws on data from sibling pairs and leads to identification of novel links between facial shape traits and specific locations within the human genome. Hanne Hoskens ...
May 13, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Combining BMI with body shape better predictor of cancer risk
New research being presented at The European Congress on Obesity (ECO) held online this year, suggests that a measure of body shape should be used alongside body mass index (BMI) to help determine the risk of obesity-related ...
May 10, 2021
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Medical research
Mice master complex thinking with a remarkable capacity for abstraction
Categorization is the brain's tool to organize sensory inputs. Grouping information into categories simplifies the complex world and helps people to react quickly and effectively to new experiences. Scientists at the Max ...
Apr 21, 2021
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Genetics
International team identifies genetic link between face and brain shape
An interdisciplinary team led by KU Leuven and Stanford has identified 76 overlapping genetic locations that shape both the face and our brain. What the researchers didn't find is evidence that this genetic overlap also predicts ...
Apr 05, 2021
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Medical research
A sturdier spike protein explains the faster spread of coronavirus variants
The fast-spreading UK, South Africa, and Brazil coronavirus variants are raising both concerns and questions about whether COVID-19 vaccines will protect against them. New work led by Bing Chen, Ph.D., at Boston Children's ...
Mar 17, 2021
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Cardiology
Using stimuli-responsive biomaterials to understand heart development, disease
Cardiovascular disease remains the number one cause of death globally. Unfortunately, the heart cannot regenerate new tissue, because the cardiomyocytes, or heart muscle cells, do not divide after birth.
Mar 02, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Antibodies recognize and attack different SARS-CoV-2 spike shapes
The virus that causes COVID-19 belongs to the family of coronaviruses, "corona" referring to the spikes on the viral surface. These spikes are not static—to infect cells, they change shapes. Maolin Lu, an associate research ...
Feb 25, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Body shape, beyond weight, drives fat stigma for women
A woman's body shape—not only the amount of fat—is what drives stigma associated with overweight and obesity.
Feb 17, 2021
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