The relationship between obesity and cognitive impairment is important given the globally
ageing population in whom cognitive decline and neurodegenerative disorders will carry …

The overweight status or obesity can be confirmed through classical methods such as the
body mass index (BMI) and the waist-to-hip ratio (WHR). Apart from metabolic issues such …

Virtual reality has been increasingly used in research on balance rehabilitation because it
provides robust and novel sensory experiences in controlled environments. We studied 19 …

Effects of stress on obesity have been thoroughly studied in high-fat diet fed mice, but not in
normal diet fed mice, which is important to clarify because even on a normal diet, some …

Background Obese persons have a higher incidence of depression than healthy-weight
persons. Several studies indicated that the exposure to a high fat diet (HFD) results in a …

Previous research on superstitious belief, a subset of paranormal belief (Irwin,), has
suggested that people tend to invoke luck‐related superstitions in stressful situations as an …

Background While recent works suggested that overweight/obesity may impair executive
function (EF), the overweight/obesity-EF relationship has not been well studied in …

The first hypothesis for this study was that stressful moments being experienced would
correlate to an individual participating in the activity of doodling. The second hypothesis for …

Previous studies have shown that healthy older adults may be less sensitive to the effects of
acute cortisol levels on memory performance than young adults. Importantly, being …

Stress is a fundamental biological response that can be associated with alterations in
cognitive processes. Unhealthy dietary habits are proposed to modulate this effect, notably …