Being bilingual does not improve general mental ability, according to a new study conducted by a team of researchers at Western University’s renowned Brain and Mind Institute. More than 11,000 participants from around the world completed 12 online cognitive tests that...
A study co-led by researchers at Western and McMaster universities on a new approach to treating public safety personnel with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is receiving close to $1 million in funding. McMaster’s Margaret McKinnon and Western’s Ruth Lanius are...
World renowned neuroscientist Adrian Owen and his team at Western University have developed a new strategy for predicting cognitive performance in Canadian university football players based on results from online surveys completed by the general population. The most...
Researchers, led by Western University's Sarah Gallagher, using the Gemini North telescope on Hawai'i's Maunakea have detected the most energetic wind from any quasar ever measured. This outflow, which is travelling at nearly 13% of the speed of light, carries enough...
According to a new study led by Western University, the globally recommended and recognized six-foot physical distancing rule – to prevent the spread of COVID-19 – may not make much of a difference if someone coughs right in your direction. The findings were recently...
Western University has launched a new $1 million research fund aimed at helping society survive pandemics. The new catalyst fund is open to a range of projects that will help build resilience and recovery from disease outbreaks, both now and beyond the current...
With facts and figures driving conversation internationally during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is equally important to remember – and record – the resilience of healthcare workers (HCW) fighting the most challenging global crisis since World War II. Elysée Nouvet, an...
Western University is supporting production of low-cost, substantively effective medical face shields that could be in hospitals for healthcare workers (HCW) within days if not hours. Face shields are vitally important to the global fight against COVID-19 as they...
According to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach has agreed to postpone the 2020 Tokyo Games until 2021 because of the global COVID-19 pandemic. The director of Western University’s International Centre for Olympic...
The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) and Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) announced today that Canadian athletes will not be sent to the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic if they go on as scheduled in July. Laura...
As the world continues to fight coronavirus 2, which causes the COVID-19 disease, experts from Western University are available to speak with media to comment on this global event. *** Eric Arts Canada Research Chair in HIV Pathogenesis and Viral Control and Chair and...
A multidisciplinary team of Western University researchers is beginning work on the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. They join the global effort to curb the spread of the virus which to-date has been confirmed in 225,000 cases worldwide, and has caused more than...
