Don’t have time to exercise because of a busy schedule? Or are you simply not very motivated? You’ll be pleased to learn that just 10 minutes of exercise every other day is all it takes. However, you really need to exert yourself during those 10 minutes.
Artificial intelligence provides good answers to mental health questions. Young people even like ChatGPT’s responses better than healthcare professionals’ advice.
New research shows that it is very common among Norwegian teens to both send and receive messages with a photo or video of intimate body parts.
Even a solitary walk in the woods or by water provides a sense of connectedness. Simply spending time in natural environments can help prevent loneliness.
Svalbard reindeer live in a place so remote they have actually evolved to become a subspecies. But that remoteness isn’t enough to protect them from contaminants from the industrial world.
Psychology students who will work with patients during supervised professional training can benefit from observing experienced therapists at work.
Some people have a greater genetic risk than others of developing type 2 diabetes. Now, more of these at-risk people are actually developing diabetes than previously.
How do you talk to a colleague who is obviously making work-related mistakes? And how would you yourself want this kind of feedback?
You’ve done it too, haven’t you? Or maybe you know someone who has? Stuck their tongue to a piece of frozen metal in the winter, even though they know it’s cold? But is it dangerous?
When researchers studied Norwegians who blamed tick bites for their chronic health problems, they found no objective evidence that ticks were the cause.
Their job is to protect, promote, and restore human health and lives, but healthcare workers believe that their own use of alcohol and illegal drugs reduces the quality of care they provide to patients. A recent study suggests that more doctors and nurses struggle with substance use than we are aware of.
What mechanisms underlie frequent and repetitive hair pulling and skin picking?
For the first time ever, NTNU researchers have identified new characteristics of aggressive prostate cancer.
People who commit domestic violence are at risk of repeating their behaviour. Research shows that it is crucial that perpetrators of intimate partner violence are met with understanding, not condemnation.
Increasing use of blood tests to detect prostate cancer is leading to overworked doctors. NTNU has now created an AI diagnostic tool that can help lighten the burden.
Feeling safe and well-being at school are linked. Girls often thrive better than boys. Why is that?
Many people with different mental health problems can be absent from work for a long time. But new results give hope that more people can recover and return to work sooner.
A breakthrough method from the 1990s is now being transformed into an AI-powered tool to help doctors diagnose cerebral palsy.
In her 35 years as a psychologist, NTNU researcher Audrey van der Meer has studied everything from baby swimming to what infants learn before they are born. At the core of her work is the idea that babies are born to learn – and the key to their learning is movement.
To gain more knowledge about how ultra-processed food affects us, we need new research methods, claim researchers. Now they are looking to better understand our intestinal flora.
Metformin makes it easier for women with the hormone disorder PCOS to get pregnant, and the mother often gets better throughout the pregnancy. Her children, however, have a markedly higher risk of eczema and allergies.
Parental alienation is when one parent manipulates the child into distancing themselves from the other parent. But does this leave detectable biological evidence?
One million births in Norway over 17 years have a story to tell: Maternity wards with greater numbers of births have safer births.
Giving adrenaline to hospital patients whose heart has stopped is very effective, and can increase the chance of bringing their heart rate back to normal by a factor of five.
