Entries by Mat Boulé

Proprioception and immunity?

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This is not the first time and, based on recent findings in the literature, I believe it won’t be the last time I write about the non-motor roles of the cerebellum.

Is barefoot best?

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Dr. Kacie Flegal, a pediatrics chiropractor, claims a positive correlation between keeping toddlers and babies barefoot and intelligence.

The Gift

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Gifted children are highly sensitive to their environment. They react with heightened emotional and behavioural responses, more than do children of average intelligence.

Visual attention and ADHD

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ADHD affects 5% of children and is characterized by impulsiveness, hyperactivity and inattention. ADHD is also associated with abnormalities in the pre frontal cortex, cerebellum and basal ganglia. These areas are all involved in sensorimotor control.

ADHD, owls and humans

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It appears to be that if kids with ADHD get distracted, barn owls do not. On that note, researchers at John Hopkins University in Baltimore are studying these birds in order to better understand how attention actually works.

The foot bone is connected to the… knee bone…

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I find it fascinating how children singing a song can seemingly make more sense in interpreting biomechanics than those supposedly skilled professionals that swear just about exclusively by the so called evidence that has been provided.

Posture and the perineum

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Could there be a link between functional affections of the perineum and posture? Musculoskeletal pain, according to A. Foisy and colleagues has, is underestimated in the approach of chronic pelvic pain.

Le périnée et la posture

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Pourrait-il y avoir un lien entre les affections fonctionnelles du périnée et la posture ? Les douleurs musculo-squelettiques, d’après A. Foisy, sont sous-estimées dans l’approche des douleurs pelviennes chroniques.

Your eyes… they do speak, darling

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Some they the eyes are the windows to the soul. Just how true is that, if at all? Researchers from Germany and Australia studied eye movements in order to see 😉 if these very movements could predict personality traits!