Month: July 2019

A short bout of exercise enhances brain function

Neuroscientists, working with mice, have discovered that a short burst of exercise directly boosts the function of a gene that increases connections between neurons in the hippocampus, the region of the brain associated with learning and memory. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Institute […]

Published on July 2, 2019

Supervised fun, exercise both provide psychosocial benefit to children with obesity

A program with clear rules, routines and activities, attentive adults and a chance to interact with peers appears to work as well at improving the quality of life, mood and self-worth of a child who is overweight or obese as a regular exercise program, researchers report. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David […]

Published on July 2, 2019

Parkinson’s Disease Detection Using Isosurfaces-Based Features and Convolutional Neural Networks

Computer aided diagnosis systems based on brain imaging are an important tool to assist in the diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, whose ultimate goal is the detection by automatic recognizing of patterns that characterize the disease. In recent times Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have proved to be amazingly useful for that task. The drawback, however, is […]

Published on July 2, 2019