Publications by authors named "A Makkonen"
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- The study aims to investigate how survey data can be used to identify factors that influence people's choices of transportation for their daily commutes, specifically among public sector employees in Finland.
- Researchers used data from a large survey involving over 42,000 employees, focusing on those commuting 5 km or less, to create a prediction model for commuting behaviors in various weather conditions.
- Results showed that factors such as commute length, physical activity levels, BMI, and demographics like sex and age significantly predict whether individuals choose active transport (bike or walking) or passive transport (car) in summer and winter.
Aim: This scoping review aimed to synthesise the findings of previous literature related to social and healthcare students' competence in patient-oriented care in interprofessional practice by attending multidisciplinary student teams.
Background: Learning about patient-oriented care requires the comprehensive consideration of patients' physical, emotional, social and economic aspects to offer the best need-based care. Multidisciplinary student teams in the clinical practice may support learning patient-oriented care; however, the current knowledge is fragmented.
The midbrain reticular formation (MRF) is a mosaic of diverse GABAergic and glutamatergic neurons that have been associated with a variety of functions, including sleep regulation. However, the molecular characteristics and development of MRF neurons are poorly understood. As the transcription factor, Gata2 is required for the development of all GABAergic neurons derived from the embryonic mouse midbrain, we hypothesized that the genes expressed downstream of Gata2 could contribute to the diversification of GABAergic neuron subtypes in this brain region.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe neural circuits regulating motivation and movement include midbrain dopaminergic neurons and associated inhibitory GABAergic and excitatory glutamatergic neurons in the anterior brainstem. Differentiation of specific subtypes of GABAergic and glutamatergic neurons in the mouse embryonic brainstem is controlled by a transcription factor Tal1. This study characterizes the behavioral and neurochemical changes caused by the absence of Tal1 function.
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