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Effects of feet warming using bed socks on sleep quality and thermoregulatory responses in a cool environment

Journal of Physiological Anthropology, 2018
Background As a way of helping to sleep in winter, methods of warming the feet through footbaths or heating pads before bedtime are tried. In particular, bed socks are popular during winter sleeping in Korea, but scientific evidence about the ...
Yelin Ko, Joo-Young Lee
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Loneliness, insomnia symptoms, social jetlag, and vitamin D deficiency in relation to mental health problems in Japanese female university students: a cross-sectional study

Journal of Physiological Anthropology
Background Vitamin D deficiency is highly prevalent among Japanese female university students. Vitamin D deficiency is associated with physical and mental health problems, including sleep disorders.
Nodoka Yamashita, Shioka Ishii, Yoriko Kotoku, Takuya Shuo, Hiromi Eto, Hideaki Kondo   +5 more
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Household wealth index is associated with stunting among children under 5: a cross-sectional analysis of the Lao Social Indicator Survey II

Journal of Physiological Anthropology
Background Stunting in early life is associated with increased morbidity and mortality among children under 5, as well as impaired health and educational and economic performance in later life.
Soulattana Vongsakit, Kumiko Ohara, Yuki Fujita, Akihiro Takada, Katsuyasu Kouda   +4 more
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Black tea aroma inhibited increase of salivary chromogranin-A after arithmetic tasks

Journal of Physiological Anthropology, 2018
Background Growing attention has been paid to the effects of food flavor components on alleviating negative brain functions caused by stressful lifestyles. In this study, we investigated the alleviating effect of two kinds of black tea aromas on physical
Ai Yoto, Natsuki Fukui, Chisa Kaneda, Shoko Torita, Keiichi Goto, Fumio Nanjo, Hidehiko Yokogoshi   +6 more
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Naming psychiatry: apropos earliest use of the term by Karl Friedrich Burdach (1800). [PDF]

Hist Psychiatry, 2023
Janssen DF.
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Do maternal grandmothers influence breastfeeding duration and infant nutrition? Evidence from Merida, Mexico. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol, 2022
Vázquez-Vázquez ADP, Fewtrell MS, Chan-García H, Batún-Marrufo C, Dickinson F, Wells JCK.   +5 more
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Somatics and phenomenological psychopathology: a mental health proposal. [PDF]

Theor Med Bioeth, 2023
Sánchez Sánchez C.
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Gender differences in exercise efficiency: the influence of adiposity during low-intensity cycling in healthy Lebanese university students

Journal of Physiological Anthropology
Introduction Low-intensity physical activity plays a key role in weight regulation, and reduced engagement in such activities is associated with rising obesity rates.
Elie-Jacques Fares, Rédina Berkachy, Sarah Zaki   +2 more
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Energy cost and lower leg muscle activities during erect bipedal locomotion under hyperoxia

Journal of Physiological Anthropology, 2018
Background Energy cost of transport per unit distance (CoT) against speed shows U-shaped fashion in walking and linear fashion in running, indicating that there exists a specific walking speed minimizing the CoT, being defined as economical speed (ES ...
Daijiro Abe, Yoshiyuki Fukuoka, Takafumi Maeda, Masahiro Horiuchi   +3 more
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Diurnal variation in the core interthreshold zone and its relation to cutaneous sensation threshold zone

Journal of Physiological Anthropology, 2017
Background The core interthreshold zone (CIZ) is defined as the range between temperatures at the onset of shivering and sweating. Its circadian or diurnal variation has not been extensively studied.
Naoshi Kakitsuba, Igor B. Mekjavic
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