https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l586gF1EPDI The impact of concussions in sport are no longer a secret. Recent high-profile lawsuits brought against the National Football League and National Hockey Leagues by former players have brought international attention to what...
For epilepsy patients, stress and anxiety can exacerbate their condition; increasing the frequency and severity of seizures. Until now, it was unclear why this happened and what could be done to prevent it. In a study published today in the journal Science Signaling,...
A newly published article written by Louis Charland from Western University's renowned Rotman Institute of Philosophy and his collaborators warrants caution about proposals to explicitly allow in the new Canadian federal legislation medical assistance in dying (MAID)...
Western University researcher, David Cechetto, PhD, is training front line health care workers in Rwanda and Burundi to treat the most common causes of infant and maternal mortality. David Cechetto, professor, Western’s Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry,...
A new Canadian research project is collecting big data from medieval melodies chanted by monks more than 1,000 years ago. And it's all searchable. But to what end? Kate Helsen, an assistant musicology professor at Western University's Don Wright Faculty of Music, is...
For patients who suffer from Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor, writing a grocery list or taking a drink from a cup can be a daily struggle due to disabling arm tremor. Now, technology developed in London provides a personalized therapy that is giving new hope...
Neuroscientists at Western University have developed a new virtual reality 'toolbox' that can be used to build video games with a unique capacity for teaching and testing both humans and animal models. Julio Martinez-Trujillo, an associate professor in the Department...
Western University's R. Samuel McLaughlin Foundation Exercise and Pregnancy Lab is celebrating 20 years of research success and excellence. To celebrate the milestone, the Exercise and Pregnancy Lab will host a special event on Mother's Day weekend for past research...
During the four days following the release of Drake's Views on Friday, April 29, Twitter was flooded with fan excitement about the new album. There were 3,828,931 tweets related to Drake's Views in that period, most of them original tweets, not retweets, in what seems...
According to new research at Western University, marijuana is the ultimate contradiction; at least when it comes to schizophrenia. This first-of-its-kind study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, demonstrates that a chemical found in marijuana called...
A Western University researcher has teamed up with London high schools to help today's youth have their say on sex education curriculum. Michael Kehler, an associate professor from Western's Faculty of Education, partnered with art departments at London’s Central...
A research team led by an award-winning genomicist at Western University has developed a new method for identifying mutations and prioritizing variants in breast and ovarian cancer genes, which will not only reduce the number of possible variants for doctors to...
