Patients with asthma can improve their disease control and sleep quality, while reducing depression and anxiety through a behavior change intervention aimed at increasing their physical activity.

To understand the full relationship between brain activity and behavior, scientists need a way to map this relationship for all of the neurons across a whole brain, something that has so far remained ...

According to a recent Finnish study, conducted at the University of Jyväskylä, high levels of sedentary behavior and physical inactivity from childhood strain the heart in adolescence. High cardiac ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A comprehensive behavior change intervention aimed at increasing physical activity yielded improvements in ...

Physical activity is a key piece of a person's overall health and quality of life. But physical activity rates among college ...

A paper that recently appeared in the journal Neuron sets up an interesting dichotomy in describing how to view the function of the brain. One option it presents is that the brain is an input-output ...

Brain connectivity patterns and environmental factors predict which older adults will successfully increase physical activity after receiving a cardiovascular diagnosis. Nagashree Thovinakere and ...

Objective To examine if individual-level and area-level socioeconomic status (SES) modifies the association of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), domain-specific physical activity and ...

Pornography triggers brain activity in people with compulsive sexual behavior -- known commonly as sex addiction -- similar to that triggered by drugs in the brains of drug addicts, according to a a ...