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A Menu to Evaluate Factors Influencing Implementation of Obesity Prevention Early Care and Education Regulations.
J Public Health Manag Pract
April 2020
Barker Bi-Coastal Health Consultants, Inc, Calabasas, California (Mss Sawicki, Barker, and Yochelson and Mr Caughlan); Gutman Research Associates, Princeton, New Jersey (Dr Gutman); and Center for Public Program Evaluation, Purcellville, Virginia (Mr Grob).
Context: In recent years, several states have adopted new regulations concerning nutrition, physical activity, and screen time in early care and education (ECE) settings to help prevent childhood obesity.
Objective: To disseminate a menu of factors that facilitate and/or impede implementation of obesity prevention regulations in ECE settings.
Design: To create the menu, we condensed and categorized factors identified in the literature and through field work by placing them within domains.
Novel genetic loci associated with hippocampal volume.
Nat Commun
January 2017
Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, 3015 CE Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Article Synopsis
- - The hippocampal formation is crucial for memory, navigation, and stress response, and its structural abnormalities are linked to various neuropsychiatric disorders.
- - A genome-wide association study involving over 33,000 individuals identified six genetic loci related to hippocampal volume, including four that are new discoveries associated with specific genes.
- - The study also reveals that genetic variants that result in smaller hippocampal volumes correlate with a higher risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, highlighting potential biological pathways related to mental health.
Common genetic variants influence human subcortical brain structures.
Nature
April 2015
QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane 4006, Australia.
The highly complex structure of the human brain is strongly shaped by genetic influences. Subcortical brain regions form circuits with cortical areas to coordinate movement, learning, memory and motivation, and altered circuits can lead to abnormal behaviour and disease. To investigate how common genetic variants affect the structure of these brain regions, here we conduct genome-wide association studies of the volumes of seven subcortical regions and the intracranial volume derived from magnetic resonance images of 30,717 individuals from 50 cohorts.
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