Gray and White Matter Changes Associated with Psychophysical Functions Induced by Diabolo Training in Young Men.

Learning a skill has been demonstrated to relate to neural plasticity in both animal and human brains. Performing diabolo consists of different tricks and may cause brain structural changes associated with psychophysical functions. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate gray matter (GM) and white matter (WM) changes associated with psychophysical functions induced by diabolo training in healthy subjects.

A clinical empirical study on the role of refined rice bran in the prevention and improvement of metabolic syndrome.

Rice bran contains lipolytic enzymes with extremely high activity that facilitate the hydrolysis of triglycerides into glycerol and fatty acids. This also causes rice bran to easily deteriorate, limiting its use, and they are not popular in the market. Researchers look forward to seeing the refined rice brans work well for metabolic syndrome.

Effect of short-term heat acclimation on endurance time and skin blood flow in trained athletes.

Background: To examine whether short-term, ie, five daily sessions, vigorous dynamic cycling exercise and heat exposure could achieve heat acclimation in trained athletes and the effect of heat acclimation on cutaneous blood flow in the active and nonactive limb.

Methods: Fourteen male badminton and table tennis athletes (age = 19.6 ± 1.