A new study from Western University is helping to explain why the long-term use of common anticholinergic drugs used to treat conditions like allergies and overactive bladder lead to an increased risk of developing dementia later in life. The findings show that...
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...
Recognized as one of Canada's leading experts in American politics, US foreign policy, interest groups and think tanks, Donald Abelson says, "Donald Trump is rude, offensive, obnoxious, and according to Hillary Clinton, 'temperamentally unfit' to be president of the...
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,...
Award-winning journalist Kevin Newman and Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Karina LeBlanc headline a special event this week at Western University, which is part of the Walrus Foundation's educational mandate to provide forums for conversations on matters vital to...
Western University announced today that this year’s Homecoming has been moved to Saturday, Oct. 22 (“Homecoming Saturday”) in an effort to address a variety of concerns associated with the unsanctioned and unsupervised street party that has taken place in recent years...
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,...
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) President Sir Craig Reedie has appointed Western University's Richard H. McLaren as the independent person heading an investigation team tasked with probing doping allegations related to the 2014 Sochi Olympics. McLaren, a renowned...
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...
