Thursday, February 9, 2012 08:27pm

Study finds exercise reduces anxiety disorder symptoms in women

Results from the first randomized controlled trial focused on the effects of exercise training among individuals diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder adds to a growing body of evidence.


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UGA special education professor leads project to continue and expand undergraduate and graduate programs that prepare high-quality early education and care providers in response to a relatively new Georgia teaching certification in Birth through Five.


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More than 90 million adults in the United States lack the literacy skills for a fully productive and secure life in the 21st century, says a National Academy of Sciences report on which UGA College of Education Associate Dean and Distinguished Research Professor Noel Gregg collaborated.


In addition to higher achievement scores, grade retentions throughout elementary and middle school were significantly lower for at-risk children who attended pre-k than for those who did not.

The findings come from a 10-year study by College of Education researchers Stacey Neuharth-Pritchett and Cynthia Vail who followed about 500 Clarke County schoolchildren from pre-k in 1999 through their ninth-grade year.


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College of Education researchers find those who return to sports and other physical activities without problems are finding new strategies to move, land, balance and not get re-injured.