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Need Your Patients to Move More? Show Them This

Ten thousand steps a day. It’s the magic number that’s said to optimize health and longevity. But did you know the 10,000-step goal is rooted more in marketing than in science? It started in 1965 in Tokyo, Japan, where a company released an early step counter, calling it manpo-kei — or “10,000 steps meter.” The...

Detailed analysis of the brain region that controls our movements
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Detailed analysis of the brain region that controls our movements

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have participated in a large international research project that has identified all cell types in the motor cortex, the part of the brain that controls movement. The research has resulted in a detailed cell atlas presented in a large special package of scientific articles in Nature. The long-term goal of the...