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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"behavioral modifications"”.
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Clinical Essentials for Obesity
… have the potential to assist with lifestyle and behavioral modifications, especially when weight problems are tied to mental health conditions. Furthermore, clinicians can focus on triggers for unhealthy choices, in addition to unhealthy beliefs about eating and weight. The purpose of this …
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The Butt Stops Here: The Optimal Treatment For Child and Adolescent Obesity
… incorporating physical activity, diet, and behavioral interventions for the prevention and treatment of childhood obesity. Regrettably, information and instruction on the lifestyle changes for physical activity, diet, and other behavioral modifications are often disseminated incorrectly, …
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Efficacy of video education for mouth breathing and oral health : a qualitative case study to understand adult patient awareness and behavior change.
… awareness and encouraging patients to make behavioral modifications to improve their health outcomes is essential due to the current high prevalence of mouth breathing. Utilizing the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change (TTM) as the framework, the focus of the study was understanding …
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Psychoneuroimmune Implications of Non-Infectious Neuroimmune System Activation and the Impact of Type 2 Diabetes
… cardiovascular disease, these cytokine-mediated behavioral modifications may contribute to the deleterious psychological and physical components of the disease. Additionally, recent evidence has implicated innate immune system activation in the pathology of a variety of conditions including …
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Kinetics and Energetics of Feeding Behaviors in Daubentonia madagascariensis
… Daubentonia to test for previously unmeasured behavioral modifications of bite forces using the post-cranial musculature. To do this I carried out two experiments measuring the kinetics of wood gnawing and the energetics of feeding behaviors. The main results of these experiments were: 1) …
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Implementation of Hypertension Treatment Recommendations
There are currently lifestyle modifications and medications that are highly successful in controlling hypertension. Nevertheless, many hypertensive individuals do not implement lifestyle changes and fail to adhere to medication regimens. The current study sought to understand both sociodemographic …
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Leveraging Human-environment Systems in Residential Buildings for Aggregate Energy Efficiency and Sustainability
… of physical interventions to buildings and/or behavioral modifications of occupants. However, such methods may not only suffer from their own disadvantages, e.g. high cost and transient effect, but also lose aggregate energy saving potential due to the oftentimes-associated …
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Behavior and habitat selection of largemouth bass in response to dynamic environmental variables with a focus on dissolved oxygen
… thermocline. Additionally, I observed several behavioral modifications while fish were foraging in low oxygen environments. Second, I tracked largemouth bass positions in a stratified lake and examined oxygen and temperature selection along with movements in relation to available abiotic …
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50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations in hemiparkinsonian rats repeatedly treated with dopaminomimetic drugs as a possible behavioral marker of the affective properties of dopamine-replacing therapy in Parkinson's disease
… of 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs), a behavioral marker of positive affect, in rats bearing a unilateral lesion with 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) in the medial forebrain bundle. Apomorphine (2 or 4 mg/kg, i.p.), L-3,4-dihydroxyphenilalanine (L-DOPA, 6 or 12 mg/kg, i.p.), or pramipexole (2 …
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On Being a Truant: A Phenomenological Study of Students in a Comprehensive High School
… students having not responded to such behavior modifications were interviewed and asked to maintain journals in which they introspectively addressed issues that result in truancy. The students' perceptions and experiences were the expert data on which the study was based. From this data, the …
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Health management of adult hypertension in the United States: Results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
… of other health complications, because behavioral modifications can be the most important for primary and secondary prevention of hypertension.
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Persistence of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms and Functional Impairment From Childhood Through Adolescence
… and with friends. Partially due to medication, behavioral modifications, and lifestyle changes, not all children will meet diagnostic criteria in adulthood. However, most children with ADHD are likely to continue to display symptoms into adolescence to an extent inappropriate for their age. The …
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DIETARY FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PROGRESSION OF AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE
… progression through dietary, lifestyle, or behavioral modifications.