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Penn Researchers Link Binge Eating and Weight-loss Challenges
Those who continue to binge eat while trying to lose weight drop about half as much as those who don’t or those who do and subsequently stop.
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In the Quest for Lasting Behavior Change, Two Researchers Lead the Charge
Have you ever made a commitment to exercise more often? You sign up with a gym and succeed for a time but soon, too soon, the enthusiasm fades. Eventually, your workout clothes gather dust and your gym membership does nothing but empty your wallet.
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New Digital-Humanities Minor Offers Unique Perspectives on Conventional Ideas
The minor, spearheaded by the Price Lab for Digital Humanities, includes courses from a broad range of departments, from Anthropology to Religious Studies.
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What Can Twitter Reveal About People With ADHD? Penn Researchers Provide Answers
What can Twitter reveal about people with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD?
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Teenagers and young adults learn sexual health through social media
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Penn’s Restoring Active Memory Project Adds Task and Patient Data to Publicly Available Human Brain Dataset
The Restoring Active Memory project run by the University of Pennsylvania has just released human intracranial brain recording and stimulation data for 102 new patients and a new spatial-navigation task developed by researchers at Columbia University.
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Traveling on behalf of Penn? Here’s what you need to know
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Monday after Daylight Saving Time sees drop in assaults
On Sunday, Nov. 5, Daylight Saving Time (DST) officially ends. Clocks will “fall back,” adding an hour of sleep and a return to Standard Time. When DST officially began, which happened this year on March 12, an hour of time was lost.
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Seven Penn Faculty Members Elected to National Academy of Medicine
Seven University of Pennsylvania faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), one of the nation’s highest honors in biomedicine. They are among 70 new U.S. and 10 international members of the globally renowned organization.
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Researchers discover which brain region motivates behavior change
Have you ever been stuck in a rut, going through the same motions day in and day out? How do you motivate to change your behavior?
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