2019

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Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's Disease

Behavioural research gets boost with first open-access database

December 17, 2019

Neuroscience researchers at Western University have developed the first open-access repository for raw data from mouse cognitive testing. Called ...

Stroke and Ischemic Brain Injury

Fellow aims to help others through WORLDiscoveries’ Medical Innovation Fellowship Program

November 01, 2019

At an age when many are deciding what to do with their lives, a then-20-year-old Wagner Souza found himself considering the end of ...

Vision/Visual Perception, Hearing and Auditory Perception, Motor Function, Neurodevelopment, Memory, Language and Speech

Awards announced for sixth round of BrainsCAN Accelerator Internal Granting Program

October 25, 2019

The brain is the last frontier in human biology. While researchers have been examining the structure for centuries, there are still many unknowns ...

Memory, Motor Function

The brain’s regions work together when it comes to skilled motor sequences

October 03, 2019

Many skills, such as typing, playing an instrument or tying a knot, rely on complex sequences of movements. Despite being common activities, ...

Aging, Neurodegeneration, Alzheimer's Disease

BrainsCAN partnership aims to showcase impact of dementia support

September 20, 2019

Tony Paul and his wife Susan were teenagers when they met in London. Now married 45 years, they have raised two children and are proud ...

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Highlighting three years of BrainsCAN support

September 16, 2019

Since 2016, BrainsCAN has funded and supported high-impact/high-reward research to help transform the way brain diseases and disorders are ...

Learning and Learning Disorders

Researchers find left- and right-handers share similarities in the brain when it comes to numbers

August 27, 2019

Left- and right-handers may write with different hands, but the brain processes numbers the same way for both. In a new Registered Report, ...

Memory, Vision/Visual Perception

Yalda Mohsenzadeh joins BrainsCAN Computational Core

August 14, 2019

On August 1, the newest member of BrainsCAN’s Computational Core, Yalda Mohsenzadeh began at Western. Mohsenzadeh joined the Computational ...

Language and Speech, Memory, Motor Function

Western University develops first-of-its-kind task-based map of the human cerebellum

July 22, 2019

It is the second largest structure in the human brain and contains more neurons than any other area. Tucked under the back of the cerebral cortex, ...

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