Physical activity reduces chronic disease risks, improves function, and extends lifespan, thus supporting clinicians’ use of exercise prescriptions as a health intervention, new research suggests. A ...

A research collaborative has revealed the changes in the brain that occur to take over motor functions that were lost due to brain lesion. The researchers generated permanent lesions in the cerebral ...

The inflammatory activity in the body caused by rheumatoid arthritis is linked to specific cognitive impairments, finds a small comparative study, published in the open access journal RMD Open. These ...

Individuals with an obstructive lung disease saw improvement in lung function when they replaced 30 minutes of sedentary time per day with strenuous or strength-building physical activity. Replacing ...

Stanford University researchers funded by DARPA’s Neuro Function, Activity, Structure, and Technology (Neuro-FAST) program have developed new optical imaging and analysis techniques that allowed them ...