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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The power of practice: adjusting curriculum to include emphasis on skills
(National Science Teachers Association, 2019-05-01)Critical thinking skills are sought after in the workforce and are often included in departmental or course learning objectives. However, many courses focus on content rather than the cognitive skills needed to improve ... -
Tumour-derived leukaemia inhibitory factor is a major driver of cancer cachexia and morbidity in C26 tumour-bearing mice
(WILEY, 2018-12-01)BACKGROUND: Cancer cachexia is a metabolic wasting syndrome that is strongly associated with a poor prognosis. The initiating factors causing fat and muscle loss are largely unknown. Previously, we found that leukaemia ... -
Effects of Parkinson’s disease on optic flow perception for heading direction during navigation
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014)Visuoperceptual disorders have been identified in individuals with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and may affect the perception of optic flow for heading direction during navigation. Studies in healthy subjects have confirmed ... -
Veering in hemi-Parkinson’s disease: primacy of visual over motor contributions
(Pergamon, 2015)Veering while walking is often reported in individuals with Parkinson’s disease (PD), with potential mechanisms being vision-based (asymmetrical perception of the visual environment) or motoric (asymmetry in stride length ... -
Social participation of families with children with autism spectrum disorder in a science museum
(Informa UK Limited, 2016-07-02)This article describes a qualitative research study undertaken as a collaboration between museum and occupational therapy (OT) researchers to better understand museum experiences for families with a child or children ... -
Biomarkers of systemic inflammation and growth in early infancy are associated with stunting in young Tanzanian children
(MDPI, 2018-09-01)Stunting can afflict up to one-third of children in resource-constrained countries. We hypothesized that low-grade systemic inflammation (defined as elevations in serum C-reactive protein or alpha-1-acid glycoprotein) in ... -
Adult siblings who have a brother or sister with autism: between-family and within-family variations in sibling relationships
(SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS, 2018-12-01)Prior research on the sibling relationship in the context of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has included only one sibling per family. We used multi-level modeling to examine aspects of the sibling relationship in 207 adults ... -
Parents' future visions for their autistic transition-age youth: hopes and expectations
(2018-11-16)Researchers have documented that young adults with autism spectrum disorder have poor outcomes in employment, post-secondary education, social participation, independent living, and community participation. There is a need ... -
Making connections and promoting the profession: social media use by World Federation of Occupational Therapy member organisations
(2016)BACKGROUND: World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT) member organisations comprise 77 national occupational therapy organisations across the world. Each national organisation interacts with its members and the ... -
Assessing dynamics, spatial scale, and uncertainty in task-related brain network analyses
The brain is a complex network of interconnected elements, whose interactions evolve dynamically in time to cooperatively perform specific functions. A common technique to probe these interactions involves multi-sensor ...
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