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Local exhibition Marks 100 Years of Nursing Education in London

Local exhibition Marks 100 Years of Nursing Education in London

This year, Western University is celebrating a century of nursing education. To mark the milestone, Museum London has pulled from its extensive artifact collection, borrowed from other community archives and private lenders to trace the development of nursing...

Research points to early detection for Alzheimer’s disease

Research points to early detection for Alzheimer’s disease

Researchers at Western University are looking at both brain metabolism and brain structure to pinpoint early signs of Alzheimer’s disease. By looking specifically at an area of the brain responsible for remembering past personal experiences, which is one of the first...

New study shows exercise boosts working memory like caffeine

New study shows exercise boosts working memory like caffeine

An innovative lab at Western University known for promoting exercise as a way to reduce tobacco cravings has translated their research and found that brisk walks – as short as 20 minutes – can compete with caffeine in terms of enhancing working memory. Working memory...

Memorial set to honour Flight PS752 victims

Memorial set to honour Flight PS752 victims

Western President Alan Shepard sent the following invitation to the community today regarding a memorial service honouring the four Western students aboard Ukraine International Flight PS752. *   *   * Following last week’s tragic crash of Flight PS752 in Iran, the...

Junior Astronauts touching down at H.B. Beal

Junior Astronauts touching down at H.B. Beal

The Canadian Space Agency’s Junior Astronauts initiative was launched last year with a goal to engage elementary and secondary school students and get them excited about the cosmos by showcasing different ways they can be involved in and enriched by planetary and...

Neuroscience controversy resolved: The hippocampus is not just a GPS

Neuroscience controversy resolved: The hippocampus is not just a GPS

It’s a controversy that goes back to a Nobel Prize winning idea that there is a specific part of our brain that acts as our Global Positioning System (GPS), responsible for knowing at any given time where we are in the world and how to navigate it. Recently,...

Behavioural research gets boost with first open-access database

Behavioural research gets boost with first open-access database

Neuroscience researchers at Western University have developed the first open-access repository for raw data from mouse cognitive testing. Called MouseBytes, the database gives researchers a platform to share rodent cognition data using touchscreen cognitive testing...