Mindfulness practices should be kept short, concrete, and varied, so that they do not exhaust or frustrate students who already have ADHD symptoms. research.folkhalsan.fi/news-article...

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Våra forskare Carola Ray och Henna Launistola betonar vikten av aktiva skolvägar, rörelsepauser under lektionerna och att vistas utomhus på rasterna för att öka den fysiska aktiviteten bland äldre elever i grundskolan. www.folkhalsan.fi/nyheter/uter...

Surrounded by my kind of people 💪🔬🧫 #EMC2025 #nerd @myofinlab.bsky.social @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social

In early childhood, clear differences already appear in movement behaviors: rural children spend more time on screens than their peers in Helsinki, and girls are less physically active than boys. @sunrisefinland.bsky.social research.folkhalsan.fi/news-article...

SUNRISE Helsinki -julkaisu! Eroaako 3–4-vuotiaiden lasten liikkuminen Helsingissä vs. lähimaaseudulla? 📍 Maaseudulla enemmän ruutuaikaa ja istumista kulkuvälineessä 📍 Motorisissa taidoissa ei alue-eroa 📍 Pojilla enemmän liikkumista www.lts.fi/media/lts_ve... @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social

Liikunta & Tiede -lehdessä julkaistu artikkelimme nyt luettavissa 👉👉👉 www.lts.fi/media/lts_ve... #liikunta #lapset #ruutuaika

We are proud to announce that Per-Henrik Groop has been honored with the prestigious Knud Lundbæk Award from the Scandinavian Society for the Study of Diabetes (SSSD) during its Annual Meeting in Oslo on 23 August. @finndiane.bsky.social

"Transcriptomic and lipidomic profiling provide novel insight into the pathogenesis of monogenic SGMS2-related osteoporosis." Our manuscript in accepted format (by JBMR Plus) is now online: academic.oup.com/jbmrplus/art... @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social

Kippisteltiin tänään @sunrisefinland.bsky.social ensimmäiselle julkaistavaksi hyväksytylle artikkelille, jossa on tutkimustuloksia mukana 🥂☀️ Artikkeli julkaistaan seuraavassa Liikunta & Tiede -lehden numerossa syyskuussa. Stay tuned! @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social

The goal of the Healthy Learning Mind (Terve Oppiva Mieli) research project is to enhance the attention, self-regulation, learning, mental health, and overall well-being of children and adolescents. These skills are linked to the curriculum's education on emotional and interpersonal skills.

Arrived in beautiful Vienna for the International Congress of Behavioral Medicine 🇦🇹 We are sharing research from the DAGIS project, including 'Giving Feedback to Study Participants' to improve recruitment and reward participation in research #ICBM2025 @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social

Registration for the @myofinlab.bsky.social - organized course, ILS144: "Genetic and genomic technologies in health care" is open. Link: tinyurl.com/43n2ydwu @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social @helsinki.fi

NEW DAGIS Publication! 🎉 Parenting practices that enhanced vegetable availability & accessibility linked to more vegetable consumption in preschool children. Overprotective parenting was linked to reduction in child vegetable intake: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40677107/ @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social

New DAGIS publication! 🎉🎉 Boosting feeding-related parental self-efficacy and limiting sugary food availability at home may improve young children’s diets—regardless of family income or parental education level www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social @helsinki.fi

How are home, school and digital food environments associated with schoolchildren's food consumption? Read our latest DAGIS blog post by Mayke Kramer who explores the topic in her Master's thesis dagis.fi/2025/07/03/h... @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social @helsinki.fi #ChildHealth #PublicHealth

In our new preprint, we show that protein O-GlcNAc is decrerased in mice with mitochondrial disease. We found that O-GlcNAc is strictly dependent on temperature in fruit flies, zebrafish, cultured mammalian cells and in the hypothermic mice. @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social @stemmprogram.bsky.social

Recent #Research by Jenni Laitila of folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social‬ et al. observes tha#pathogenicic TNNT1 variants are associated with aberrant thin filament compliance an#myofibrere hyper-contractility 🔬 🧬 🔗 Read the work here: https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP288109

Elina Engberg and Jenni Laitila are new Academy Research Fellows, and a joint project on the oral microbiome in health and disease received Academy Project Funding. @elinaengberg.bsky.social @laitilajenni.bsky.social @myofinlab.bsky.social @fin-hit.bsky.social research.folkhalsan.fi/news-article...

Congratulations, Jani Haukka, for a successful doctoral defense! Electronic version of the dissertation: hdl.handle.net/10138/596743 @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social #diabetes #research #folkhälsan

Congratulations Jani, for successfully defending your doctoral dissertation! 🔗 Full text available here: urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978... @helsinki.fi

We are very grateful to the Research Council of Finland (Suomen Akatemia) for funding our research on neuromuscular disorders. Thank you / Kiitos / Tack! 💙 Jenni has been awarded an Academy Research Fellowship, which entails a 4-year grant. Jenni shares what the grant will be used for 👇: (1/4)

Cleaning day at @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social completed! 🧼🧑‍🔬

Jani Haukka will defend his doctoral dissertation named “Genetic and metabolomic factors of type 1 diabetes and diabetic kidney disease” on 17 June at 13:00 EEST, in Biomedicum 1, Lecture Hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 8, Helsinki. @helsinki.fi 🔗 Full text: urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978... #FolkhälsanResearch

The SUNRISE Finland study’s presentation at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Malaga featured here: www.news-medical.net/news/2025051... @newsmedical.bsky.social @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social

Congratulations Pauliina, for successfully defending your doctoral dissertation! Full text available here: urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978... @helsinki.fi

Physical activity in late midlife can slow down metabolomics-based biological aging – but you need to move twice as much as currently recommended in physical activity guidelines, a recent study by Katri Ruutu shows. @katriruutu.bsky.social #FolkhälsanResearch research.folkhalsan.fi/news-article...

Our talented young investigators, what an amazing day! Excellent talks, beautiful science and great discussions 💪🔬 @myofinlab.bsky.social @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social

Another NM paper quite fittingly published during #NMAwarenessMonth by our team at @myofinlab.bsky.social @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social 💪🔬💙

Pauliina Repo will defend her doctoral dissertation named “Genetic predisposition to uveal melanoma in the Finnish population” on 23 May at 12 EEST, in Haartman-Instituutti, Sali 2, Haartmaninkatu 3, Helsinki. @helsinki.fi Follow the live stream here: video.helsinki.fi/unitube/live...

Mitochondria Summer School 2025 at the twinpeakish Rokua wilderness hotel. So much interesting science, international networking and fun! @unioulu.bsky.social @stemmprogram.bsky.social @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social

Tuoreita tutkimustuloksia Fin-HIT-kohortista: väitöskirjatutkijamme Catharina Sarkkola selvitti lapsen ylensyöntitaipumuksen yhteyttä painonkehitykseen teini-iässä. @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social

Delighted to announce "Connecting Nature and Public Health" a EPHC 2025 pre-conference on 11 Nov 2025 in Finland. Topics include: 🌱 Green Prescriptions and Mental Health 🌿 Biodiversity and Health Watch our teaser video: vimeo.com/1073430845/5... @eupha.bsky.social @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social

Emma Dahlström from the FinnDiane Study has been awarded the ”Rising Star – Harry Keen Award” by the European Diabetic Nephropathy Study Group, in recognition of her contributions as a young researcher. Congratulations, Emma! @emmadahlstrom.bsky.social @finndiane.bsky.social #EDNSG

Congratulations Rishi, for successfully defending your doctoral dissertation! @rbanerjee.bsky.social @helsinki.fi 🔗 Full text: urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978... #FolkhälsanResearch

Yesterday was the big D day for my PhD student Rishi from @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social @stemmprogram.bsky.social With the gentle but professional opponent Prof. Luis Lopez from universidadgranada.bsky.social Rishi did fantastically. So proud of his effort and ambition!

Congratulations @emmadahlstrom.bsky.social for winning the #EDNSG Rising Star Award for her work towards establishing causal paths to diabetic kidney disease! @finndiane.bsky.social @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social

Doctoral researchers Anna-Maria Lahti and Sini Stenroth from the Healthy Aging research group presented posters at the REVES conference hosted by Tampere University 14–15 May.  @reves-network.bsky.social #FolkhälsanResearch

🧬 Meet our group members! 🧬 ▫️Milla Laarne (MSc), Doctoral researcher Milla graduated with a master’s degree in Genetics and Molecular Biosciences from the University of Helsinki in June 2022. (1/5)

Vad ska vi egentligen lägga på tallriken – och hur kan vi främja goda matvanor från småbarnsåldern till tonåren? Under webbinariet Folkhälsan på tallriken den 4 juni får du höra färska forskningsresultat och praktiska tips för vardagens måltider. Välkommen med! www.folkhalsan.fi/kurser/folkh...

Our study highlights how understanding differential exon usage can improve the diagnosis and prognosis of titin-related diseases. This could be applied to other genetic disorders, as 70% of the human genes show variable exon usage. @myofinlab.bsky.social research.folkhalsan.fi/annual-repor...

Our results extend existing evidence linking insulin metabolism to frailty and highlight potential novel drug targets for frailty prevention and intervention. #FolkhälsanResearch research.folkhalsan.fi/annual-repor...

Dental caries, gingivitis, and excess weight are common health conditions in children, sharing similar risk factors. We investigated whether caries or gingivitis precedes the development of excess weight in early adolescence. @fin-hit.bsky.social research.folkhalsan.fi/annual-repor...

On my way to the European Congress on Obesity and excited about Karoliina Uusitalo sharing our work from the SUNRISE Finland study 🌴 Understanding urban-rural differences is crucial in the context of ongoing urbanization and its potential impact on children’s health. @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social

Rishi Banerjee will defend his doctoral dissertation named “Novel disease mechanisms and effects of gene therapy in mouse models of neonatal mitochondrial complex III deficiency” on May 16 at 13:00 EEST, at Biomedicum Helsinki. @rbanerjee.bsky.social @helsinki.fi Full text: urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978...

Svenskspråkiga skolelever får oftare än finskspråkiga elever bilskjuts eller åker moped till skolan i stället för att gå eller cykla. Aktiv transport skulle vara väldigt viktigt, speciellt för dem som inte annars rör på sig, säger forskare Carola Ray i intervjun för Svenska Yle. yle.fi/a/7-10077415

In our genetic sequencing study of over 1,000 FinnDiane study participants with type 1 diabetes, we uncovered clues that might help understand why some of the individuals develop diabetic kidney disease. @finndiane.bsky.social #FolkhälsanResearch research.folkhalsan.fi/annual-repor...

The international canine gene research database represents a major milestone in biomedical science by providing an expansive atlas of gene expression and promoter activity across more than 100 canine tissues. #FolkhälsanResearch research.folkhalsan.fi/annual-repor...

X-linked retinoschisis (XLRS) is a rare inherited eye disease that mostly affects young boys and leads to progressive vision loss. A recent Finnish study – the largest of its kind – followed 52 XLRS patients over several years to better understand the condition research.folkhalsan.fi/annual-repor...

Thank you everyone who attended @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social FHRC Scientific Days 2025! We enjoyed hearing the latest research in genetics & public health and with 125 researchers attending it was a record year. Check out the new FHRC website to learn more about our work: research.folkhalsan.fi ✨