2025
Inspiring Minds: Can we improve walking abilities with music and brain stimulation?
February 07, 2025
PhD candidate Marina Emerick is exploring non-invasive brain stimulation to target brain regions involved in rhythm perception and the use of music as an auditory cue during walking.Researchers uncover new approach to predict pain sensitivity
February 06, 2025
A team of researchers led by David Seminowicz, PhD, found two biomarkers that could transform the way chronic pain is understood and managedStudy shows promise for treating core symptom of frontotemporal dementia
January 23, 2025
Largest trial in FTD, led by Schulich Medicine & Dentistry professor Dr. Elizabeth Finger, finds oxytocin can improve apathy symptomsWestern researchers use math to decipher how machine learning works
January 17, 2025
Led by mathematics professor and Fields Lab for Network Science director Lyle Muller, researchers have developed a new math-based technique to understand how computer models perform brain-like activities, revealing new insights into AI.Brain Gain: One year, many discoveries
January 17, 2025
Although it weighs just three pounds, the brain plays a vital role in health and disease. Schulich Medicine & Dentistry researchers are helping unravel some of the brain’s mysteries to prevent, diagnose and treat the most enduring and challenging brain-related conditions.Western researchers use math to decipher how machine learning works
January 17, 2025
Led by mathematics professor and Fields Lab for Network Science director Lyle Muller, researchers have developed a new math-based technique to understand how computer models perform brain-like activities, revealing new insights into AI.Modelling the human brain
January 06, 2025
Professor Steven Laviolette, PhD, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology and Department of Psychiatry, uses human brain organoids in his research to examine the neurobiological and molecular mechanisms underlying various psychiatric disorders, such as addiction and schizophrenia.Announcement: Dr. Julio Martinez-Trujillo re-appointed Provincial Endowed Academic Chair in Autism
January 01, 2025
Dr. Julio Martinez-Trujillo has been re-appointed as the Provincial Endowed Academic Chair in Autism at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University. His renewed term will be effective January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2029.