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Researchers develop decision tree to help clinicians predict genetic diagnoses in neurodevelopmental cases

A study identifies motor delay and hypotonia as key predictors of genetic diagnoses, aiding clinicians in neurodevelopmental care and genetic testing decisions.

16 Oct 2024

A new system for real-time full-body motion capture using consumer devices

Northwestern University engineers have developed a new system for full-body motion capture - and it doesn't require specialized rooms, expensive equipment, bulky cameras or an array of sensors.

16 Oct 2024

Understanding how the hippocampus discriminates social threat from safety

How do we distinguish threat from safety? It's a question important not just in our daily lives, but for human disorders linked with fear of others, such as social anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

15 Oct 2024

Study explores impact of active navigation and immersive environments on episodic memory

Just like a time machine, episodic memory enables us to travel to the past in our minds and relive personal experiences with full clarity, as if we were going through them all over again.

15 Oct 2024

Motor delays and hypotonia differentiate neurodevelopmental disease patients with and without genetic diagnoses

Researchers identified key clinical factors like motor delays and hypotonia that predict genetic diagnoses in children with neurodevelopmental disorders, creating a decision tree to guide clinicians.

14 Oct 2024

UCLA study reveals key signs for genetic testing in neurodevelopment disorders

In a new study, UCLA Health researchers have found that motor delay and low muscle tone were common signs of an underlying genetic diagnosis in children with neurodevelopment disorders.

12 Oct 2024

The role of geroscience in understanding Alzheimer’s Disease

For more than 30 years, researchers have identified and quantified genetic and lifestyle factors for Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and other dementias. Despite extensive research, the fundamental mechanisms behind these neurodegenerative diseases are still not fully understood, and effective management of AD is taking longer than expected.

10 Oct 2024

Robotic buddy encourages toddlers to be more physically active

Parents seeking help in encouraging toddlers to be physically active may soon need to look no further than an inexpensive robotic buddy for their kids, a new study by Oregon State University suggests.

9 Oct 2024

New smartphone apps empower blind users to navigate indoor spaces

Two new apps will enable blind people to navigate indoor buildings with spoken directions from a smartphone app, providing a safe method of wayfinding where GPS doesn't work.

8 Oct 2024

Smartphone data can reveal early dementia risks during real-world navigation

Researchers found that smartphone data from a wayfinding task can reveal cognitive decline patterns in older adults, especially those with subjective cognitive decline (SCD).

8 Oct 2024

A boy’s bicycling death haunts a Black neighborhood. 35 years later, There’s still no sidewalk.

It's been 35 years since John Parker died after a pickup collided with the bike he was riding on Cheek Road in east Durham before school. He was 6.

8 Oct 2024

Understanding the brain’s process of dividing experiences into events

The moment a person steps off the street and into a restaurant - to take just one example - the brain mentally starts a new "chapter" of the day, a change that causes a big shift in brain activity. Shifts like this happen all day long, as people encounter new environments, like going out for lunch, attending their kid's soccer game, or settling in for a night of watching TV.

3 Oct 2024

Researchers use smartphone data for early detection of Alzheimer's

Researchers from DZNE and Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg have identified individuals with increased risk for dementia using mobility data, recorded during a smartphone-based wayfinding task on the university campus.

3 Oct 2024

Reducing sedentary time found effective in preventing worsening back pain

A new study from the University of Turku in Finland showed that reducing daily sitting prevented back pain from worsening over six months.

2 Oct 2024

NIH grant supports research on cognitive decline in individuals with Lewy body diseases

Penn Medicine researchers will advance their understanding of the underlying causes of cognitive decline in individuals with Lewy body diseases, like Parkinson's, and identify biomarkers that predict which individuals are more likely to develop dementia with a $18 million grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging.

30 Sep 2024

From patient to physician: EJ Beck's medical journey at NYU Langone Health

As a child, EJ Beck was treated for a rare pediatric thyroid cancer at NYU Langone Health. About 10 years after the scan that declared her cancer-free, Beck was accepted into her No. 1 choice for a medical school: NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

27 Sep 2024

New online platform aims to empower Latino families in mental health and behavior

Cory Cobb, PhD, an assistant professor of health behavior at the Texas A&M University School of Public Health, is leading a research team that has been awarded a three-year grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to create an online platform for the intervention program they developed for United States-based Spanish-speaking Latino parents and their children.

20 Sep 2024

New model explains how the brain restores walking rhythm after disruptions

Walking is an activity that is often taken for granted. Most people usually think they can multitask by "walking and chewing gum" simultaneously with hardly any taxation of their mental effort.

20 Sep 2024

Higher self-compassion reduces depression and anxiety in Syrian refugees

Displaced individuals experience high rates of emotional distress, depression and anxiety resulting from trauma and stress from displacement and loss.

20 Sep 2024

$1 million grant awarded to explore myelin repair mechanisms in multiple sclerosis

The National Multiple Sclerosis Society (USA) has awarded a grant of 1 million dollars to Dr. Isabel Pérez-Otaño, who leads the Plasticity and Remodeling of Neural Circuits laboratory at the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Miguel Hernández University (UMH) of Elche.

18 Sep 2024

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Researchers develop decision tree to help clinicians predict genetic diagnoses in neurodevelopmental cases

A new system for real-time full-body motion capture using consumer devices

Understanding how the hippocampus discriminates social threat from safety

Study explores impact of active navigation and immersive environments on episodic memory

Motor delays and hypotonia differentiate neurodevelopmental disease patients with and without genetic diagnoses

UCLA study reveals key signs for genetic testing in neurodevelopment disorders

The role of geroscience in understanding Alzheimer’s Disease

Robotic buddy encourages toddlers to be more physically active

New smartphone apps empower blind users to navigate indoor spaces

Smartphone data can reveal early dementia risks during real-world navigation

A boy’s bicycling death haunts a Black neighborhood. 35 years later, There’s still no sidewalk.

Understanding the brain’s process of dividing experiences into events

Researchers use smartphone data for early detection of Alzheimer's

Reducing sedentary time found effective in preventing worsening back pain

NIH grant supports research on cognitive decline in individuals with Lewy body diseases

From patient to physician: EJ Beck's medical journey at NYU Langone Health

New online platform aims to empower Latino families in mental health and behavior

New model explains how the brain restores walking rhythm after disruptions

Higher self-compassion reduces depression and anxiety in Syrian refugees

$1 million grant awarded to explore myelin repair mechanisms in multiple sclerosis

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