Kyoto University · Medicine
Professor Momoko Nagai-Tanima's research lab focuses on public health and preventive medicine, with a strong emphasis on health literacy, mental well-being in young and older adults, and the impact of social and environmental factors on health outcomes. Her work explores the role of digital and interpersonal communication in shaping health knowledge—particularly during public health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic—and investigates physical and mental health trajectories across the lifespan, including in youth sports injuries and maternal health. The lab also contributes to understanding rare neurodevelopmental disorders such as holoprosencephaly through molecular genetics research.
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Health literacy and COVID-19 knowledge could be improved using diverse information sources, especially by providing opportunities to use digital media and face-to-face communication. Furthermore, it may be important to improve health literacy and provide accurate knowledge about COVID-19 to young adults.
Study findings indicated that the incidence of elbow injuries has decreased significantly over the past 10 years, although the elbow joint still accounted for almost one-third of all injuries in Japanese youth baseball players.
The results suggest that physical activity and mental function among older adults may differ according to their employment status, especially for men. Employment among the elderly may play an important role in maintaining their physical activity and mental function.
Holoprosencephaly (HPE) is the most common congenital anomaly affecting the forebrain and face in humans and occurs as frequently as 1:250 conceptions or 1:10,000 livebirths. Sonic Hedgehog signaling molecule is one of the best characterized HPE genes that plays crucial roles in numerous developmental processes including midline neural patterning and craniofacial development. The Frizzled class G-protein coupled receptor Smoothened (SMO), whose signaling activity is tightly regulated, is the sol
This study suggested that LPP in second trimester pregnancy might be related to IO thickness. Further longitudinal studies are needed to understand the role of this muscle as an LPP risk factor for pregnant women.
Abstract Background The pandemic due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has brought the change of social communication. For university students, friendships considered to be important to reduce stress and mental difficulties, and a decrease in social interaction with friends may have an impact on their mental health. This study aimed to investigate the association between changes in social communication during the COVID-19 pandemic and mental health status among university students in Ja
Cryotherapy is used to recover muscle damage after exercise and to treat acute sports injuries. Liquid ice (LI) can keep cold for a long time, and is assumed more effective than block ice (BI). From this, the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of LI on the change of passive stiffness (PS) as muscle function and to validate the effectiveness of LI compared to BI. We performed the experiment as part of a case series of verification of the effects of cryotherapy. 22 healthy men (targe
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