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The body as image: image as body [PDF]
The Lancet, 2017 Pain consultations are often contested spaces where patient and clinician compete for the roles of speaker. Often patients are searching for mechanical explanations and clinicians for psychological ones - creating an impasse and causing distress to both parties.
Padfield, D, Chadwick, T, Omand, H
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Ensuring the safety and health of workers performing work at heights in the industrial sectors [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2020 The research study aims to implement the general principles for the prevention of professional risks at employers’ level in relation to low-mobility workers in order to ensure an adequate level of safety and to ensure protection measures in support of ...
Antonov Anca Elena +2 more
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Identification of SSRI-evoked antidepressant sensory signals by decoding vagus nerve activity
Scientific Reports, 2021 The vagus nerve relays mood-altering signals originating in the gut lumen to the brain. In mice, an intact vagus is required to mediate the behavioural effects of both intraluminally applied selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and a strain of ...
Christine L. West +8 more
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Body Weight and Body Image [PDF]
BMC Women's Health, 2004 HEALTH ISSUE: Body weight is of physical and psychological importance to Canadian women; it is associated with health status, physical activity, body image, and self-esteem. Although the problems associated with overweight and obesity are indeed serious, there are also problems connected to being underweight.
Marion P. Olmsted, Traci McFarlane
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Realistic Simulation for Body Area and Body-To-Body Networks [PDF]
Sensors, 2016 In this paper, we present an accurate and realistic simulation for body area networks (BAN) and body-to-body networks (BBN) using deterministic and semi-deterministic approaches. First, in the semi-deterministic approach, a real-time measurement campaign is performed, which is further characterized through statistical analysis.
Muhammad Alam +6 more
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The Future of Stress Management: Integration of Smartwatches and HRV Technology
Sensors, 2023 In the modern world, stress has become a pervasive concern that affects individuals’ physical and mental well-being. To address this issue, many wearable devices have emerged as potential tools for stress detection and management by measuring heart rate,
Ravinder Jerath +2 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Intestinal bacteria have diverse and complex influence on their host. Evidence is accumulating that this may be mediated in part by bacterial extracellular membrane vesicles (MV), nanometer-sized particles important for intercellular communication ...
Kevin Champagne-Jorgensen +4 more
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Ear your heart: transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation on heart rate variability in healthy young participants [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Background Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) stimulating the auricular branch of the vagus nerve along a well-defined neuroanatomical pathway, has promising therapeutic efficacy. Potentially, taVNS can modulate autonomic responses.
Giuseppe Forte +7 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 The sense of touch is imperative in cognition, development, and for how we perceive the world and interact with others. The skin envelopes our body and is our largest organ providing us with information about our immediate environment. In addition to this “surface” information, our somatosensory system also processes information regarding body position
Bettina Forster, Alexander Jones
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Ensuring the safety of workers in underground electrical installations - professional risk assessment [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2020 Occupational risk assessment is a prevention tool used to manage safety and health at work in the national economy sectors of activity. Within the operation and maintenance in underground electrical installations, several major risk factors are ...
Buică Georgeta +4 more
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