Canadian researchers are the first to study how different patterns in the way older adults walk could more accurately diagnose different types of dementia and identify Alzheimer's disease. A new study ...

Even though human legs allow a wide repertoire of movements, when people travel by foot they mostly use one of two locomotor patterns, namely, walking and running. The selection of these two gaits ...

People with Lewy body dementia and Alzheimer’s disease do not walk the same way. In fact, their unique walking patterns may help clinicians differentiate between the two conditions and improve disease ...

Even simple insects can generate quite different movement patterns with their six legs. The animal uses various gaits depending on whether it crawls uphill or downhill, slowly or fast. Scientists have ...

Those with Parkinson’s might notice multiple changes to their walking patterns, too, including smaller steps, slower speed, ...

A team dedicated to designing energy conversion devices, led by Weilin Chen from Northeast Normal University in Changchun, recently designed a triboelectric nanogenerator based on changing the ...