College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences (Sargent College)
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/1166
Sargent College offers both undergraduate and graduate programs to prepare students for a broad range of careers in health care and rehabilitation sciences including medicine and public health as well as professional preparation in athletic training, nutrition, occupational therapy, physical therapy and speech-language pathology. In addition, doctoral degree candidates can pursue an array of programs leading to a PhD or ScD.
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Smartphone-based neuropsychological assessment in Parkinson's disease: feasibility, validity, and contextually driven variability in cognition
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2022-04)OBJECTIVES: The prevalence of neurodegenerative disorders demands methods of accessible assessment that reliably captures cognition in daily life contexts. We investigated the feasibility of smartphone cognitive assessment ... -
Vascular aging, the vascular cytoskeleton and aortic stiffness
(Open Exploration Publishing, 2021)Vascular aging, aortic stiffness and hypertension are mechanistically interrelated. The perspective presented here will focus mainly on the molecular mechanisms of age-associated increases in the stiffness of the vascular ... -
Non-muscle myosin II regulates aortic stiffness through effects on specific focal adhesion proteins and the non-muscle cortical cytoskeleton
(Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, 2020)Non-muscle myosin II (NMII) plays a role in many fundamental cellular processes including cell adhesion, migration, and cytokinesis. However, its role in mammalian vascular function is not well understood. Here, we ... -
Ageing causes an aortic contractile dysfunction phenotype by targeting the expression of members of the extracellular signal-regulated kinase pathway
(Wiley, 2022-03)The extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) pathway is a well-known regulator of vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation, but it also serves as a regulator of caldesmon, which negatively regulates vascular contractility. ... -
Introduction to the special issue on comfort: A review of 26 papers from the International Comfort Congress 2019
(IOS Press, 2021)Various aspects related to comfort are described in this special issue. Some papers are focused on the environment, like smell, temperature, light, acoustics, space and some on an artefact touching the human, like the floor ... -
Experiences of LGBTQ-identifying students, interns, and practitioners of dietetics
(2021)Individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or queer (LGBTQ) currently comprise over five percent of the population in America. It is unknown how many dietetics students, interns, or practitioners ... -
Multi-level outcomes for young adults with acquired brain injury through a remote intensive cognitive rehabilitation approach: a pilot intervention study
(Informa UK Limited, 2022-01-28)OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effects of the Intensive Cognitive and Communication Rehabilitation (ICCR) program for young adults with acquired brain injury (ABI) using a quasi-experimental pilot intervention study design ... -
Improving iron folic acid consumption through interpersonal communication: findings from the reduction in anemia through normative innovations (RANI) project
(Elsevier BV, 2022-01)OBJECTIVE: More than half of Indian women of reproductive age are anemic. Regular iron folic acid uptake can prevent and treat anemia. This study investigated the effect of interpersonal communication on improving IFA use ... -
If fear of infertility restricts contraception use, what do we know about this fear? An examination in rural Ethiopia
(BioMed Central, 2022-06-13)BACKGROUND: Ethiopia has made great progress toward reducing unmet need for family planning and increasing contraception use over the last decade. However, almost one-quarter of women still have an unmet need. The primary ...
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