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Preschooler traits may help predict teenager diets

September 15, 2022

Society & Culture

Nebraska’s Tim Nelson has received a new five-year grant to extend research into obesity. One component of it is to test subjects at the Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior by having the test subject in an MRI receiving sips of milkshakes.

Nebraska researchers continue obesity intervention study

September 4, 2020

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

Timothy Nelson, associate professor of psychology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, is studying how certain cognitive processes that develop throughout childhood affect health behaviors during adolescence and beyond.

Nebraska researchers eye link between cognitive abilities, weight

September 20, 2018

Science & Technology