Like most sports technology, hockey helmets have evolved exponentially over the past 50 years. Gone are the days of the “egg shell” helmets worn by NHL superstars like Wayne Gretzky and Michel Goulet in the 1970s and 1980s. As the primary piece of e …
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Join the Hellmuth Prize celebration
Join the Western community in celebrating professors Paul Beamish and Adrian Owen, winners of the 2013 Hellmuth Prize for Achievement in Research, at 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 1 in Conron Hall, room 224, University College.
Blind brain receives ‘visual’ cues to identify shape
A significant number of blind humans, not unlike bats and dolphins, can localize silent objects in their environment simply by making clicking sounds with their mouth and listening to the returning echoes.
Owen documentary now available in Canada
The BBC-TV program Panorama featured Western neuroscientist Adrian Owen last fall detailing his revolutionary efforts to communicate with severely brain-injured patients.
Debunking the IQ myth
You may be more than a single number, according to a team of Western-led researchers.
Peterson and Naci: Confronting ethical implications of detecting awareness in the vegetative state
Imagine that a close family member of yours was involved in a terrible car accident.
The future of neuroscience
Within the last 40 years, extraordinary technological developments in the field of brain imaging have produced a cornucopia of new techniques for examining both the structure and the functioning of the living human brain.
BBC-TV spotlights Western neuroscientist’s research
The BBC-TV program Panorama will feature Western neuroscientist Adrian Owen tonight detailing his revolutionary efforts to communicate with severely brain-injured patients.
Culham appointed to new, innovative journal
eLife, a new high-profile, open-access biomedical journal, has just been launched with Western professor Jody Culham on its Board of Reviewing Editors. Culham, a professor affiliated with the Brain and Mind Institute, the Department of Psychology and the Graduate Program in Neuroscience at Western, served as a reviewing editor for one of the first papers to be published in eLife.
Homecoming 2012 has brains on the mind
Western is recognized as one of the world’s leading academic institutions for the scientific exploration of brain and mind.
Explaining those feelings of deja vu
Most people have been in a situation that suddenly feels strangely familiar, while also realizing that they have never been in that specific place before.
Lecture to focus on ‘Education Matters’
One of the world’s best-known cognitive neuroscientists, Stanislas Dehaene, will visit Western on Monday, May 7, where he will deliver a public lecture, “Education Matters: Literacy, Numeracy and the Developing Brain.”
Campus Digest, April 19
Western neuroscientist wins Grammy award While she didn’t share the stage with Bruce Springsteen or Adele at the 54th annual Grammy Awards, Jessica Grahn is now a Grammy winner. Grahn, a neuroscientist at Western, has been awarded a grant from the Grammy Foundation...
Join the Hellmuth Prize celebration
Join the Western community in celebrating professors Paul Beamish and Adrian Owen, winners of the 2013 Hellmuth Prize for Achievement in Research, at 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 1 in Conron Hall, room 224, University College.
Blind brain receives ‘visual’ cues to identify shape
A significant number of blind humans, not unlike bats and dolphins, can localize silent objects in their environment simply by making clicking sounds with their mouth and listening to the returning echoes.
Owen documentary now available in Canada
The BBC-TV program Panorama featured Western neuroscientist Adrian Owen last fall detailing his revolutionary efforts to communicate with severely brain-injured patients.
Debunking the IQ myth
You may be more than a single number, according to a team of Western-led researchers.
Peterson and Naci: Confronting ethical implications of detecting awareness in the vegetative state
Imagine that a close family member of yours was involved in a terrible car accident.
The future of neuroscience
Within the last 40 years, extraordinary technological developments in the field of brain imaging have produced a cornucopia of new techniques for examining both the structure and the functioning of the living human brain.
BBC-TV spotlights Western neuroscientist’s research
The BBC-TV program Panorama will feature Western neuroscientist Adrian Owen tonight detailing his revolutionary efforts to communicate with severely brain-injured patients.
Culham appointed to new, innovative journal
eLife, a new high-profile, open-access biomedical journal, has just been launched with Western professor Jody Culham on its Board of Reviewing Editors. Culham, a professor affiliated with the Brain and Mind Institute, the Department of Psychology and the Graduate Program in Neuroscience at Western, served as a reviewing editor for one of the first papers to be published in eLife.
Homecoming 2012 has brains on the mind
Western is recognized as one of the world’s leading academic institutions for the scientific exploration of brain and mind.
Explaining those feelings of deja vu
Most people have been in a situation that suddenly feels strangely familiar, while also realizing that they have never been in that specific place before.
Lecture to focus on ‘Education Matters’
One of the world’s best-known cognitive neuroscientists, Stanislas Dehaene, will visit Western on Monday, May 7, where he will deliver a public lecture, “Education Matters: Literacy, Numeracy and the Developing Brain.”
Campus Digest, April 19
Western neuroscientist wins Grammy award While she didn’t share the stage with Bruce Springsteen or Adele at the 54th annual Grammy Awards, Jessica Grahn is now a Grammy winner. Grahn, a neuroscientist at Western, has been awarded a grant from the Grammy Foundation...