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October 29, 2024
Eight 澳门六合彩开奖预测 undergraduate student researchers representing five faculties were recently named among the best in the world in The Global ...
October 18, 2024
A 澳门六合彩开奖预测-led, large-scale study shows that playing video games may boost ones cognitive abilities.
June 05, 2024
Penny Pexman shares her vision for new partnerships, enhanced support for researchers
May 28, 2024
澳门六合彩开奖预测 professor Jessica Grahn to give pre-concert talk on benefits of music for Alzheimer's disease.
March 27, 2024
Congratulations to the Brain & Mind Faculty who were part of the 10 澳门六合彩开奖预测 Faculty to attract provincial funding for projects focused on ...
March 19, 2024
Ryan Stevenson studies how children's perception of the world impacts future brain development
March 13, 2024
November 13, 2023
With most children and teenagers spending hours a day on a smartphone, CBC鈥檚 Christine Birak breaks down what research shows about how using ...
April 05, 2023
Three members of the 澳门六合彩开奖预测 community are being recognized for their commitment to academic excellence, service and empowering ...
March 17, 2023
When a human spots a familiar face or an oncoming vehicle, it takes the brain a mere 100 milliseconds (about one-tenth of a second) to identify it ...
January 05, 2023
But are there biases in AI processing? Researchers from 澳门六合彩开奖预测 and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel) tested a large sample ...
December 13, 2022
Neuroscientists examine the promise and limitations of VR A new study by 澳门六合彩开奖预测 neuroscientists suggests that, unlike true reality, perception ...
October 18, 2022
Reasoning, speed of thinking,聽verbal abilities聽among infection impacts A聽new long-term study led by neuroscientists at 澳门六合彩开奖预测 ...
October 03, 2022
澳门六合彩开奖预测 officially launches the new Optical Neuroimaging Research Group (ONRG, pronounced "on-ergy"). It will be dedicated to unlocking ...
September 21, 2022
Stroke researcher Sue Peters one of 7 faculty members awarded CFI funding. Neuroscientist and physiotherapy professor Sue Peters is one of ...
August 16, 2022
The Amazing Race Canada is airing on CTV all summer long. On August 16, racers made their way to 澳门六合彩开奖预测 where viewers got a glimpse of ...
March 10, 2022
Math anxiety is a global phenomenon. Researchers are probing its effects on classrooms and the workforce, with a focus on STEM skills. Beyond ...
November 17, 2021
Neuroscientist Jessica Grahn awarded prestigious NSERC research fellowship
November 15, 2021
Grouping sensory abilities helps better support kids with autism spectrum disorder
October 25, 2021
Tim Bussey, Ingrid Johnsrude, Michelle Mottola named Fellows of Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
October 20, 2021
澳门六合彩开奖预测 researchers find kids spend as much as 13 hours daily on screens.
October 01, 2021
The Jacobs Foundation has awarded a five-year, nearly $11-million grant to support the creation of the Connecting the EdTech Research EcoSystem ...
September 22, 2021
Research refutes popular notion on language proficiency in children.
July 26, 2021
A new technique developed at 澳门六合彩开奖预测 to visually iron out the wrinkles and folds in one region of the brain may provide researchers a ...
June 03, 2021
New research from Brain and Mind Institute and UCL suggests people may need to concentrate on the art of conversation more than ever following ...
May 20, 2021
澳门六合彩开奖预测 cognitive neuroscientists using MRI discovered a biological deficit for some early readers that impairs the ability to sound words out.
April 26, 2021
Adrian Owen, an investigator with 澳门六合彩开奖预测鈥檚 Brain and Mind Institute, is currently using web-based cognitive function assessments to ...
April 09, 2021
Pan Liu explores whether pre- and post-pandemic fMRI brain scans may drive early detection and interventions for vulnerable adolescents
March 31, 2021
澳门六合彩开奖预测 neuroscientists Giacomo Ariani, Neda Kordjazi, Andrew Pruszynski and J枚rn Diedrichsen found that improving planning can have a ...
March 16, 2021
A team of 澳门六合彩开奖预测 scientists and clinicians is combining powerful brain imaging tools with Alzheimer鈥檚 and epilepsy expertise to better ...
March 08, 2021
MRIs show subtle changes in the brains of patients with early-onset dementia, a finding that could lead to treatments for emotional processing ...
February 18, 2021
Like a small airport trying to handle too much air traffic, parts of the brain not meant to process language are trying to perform this complex ...
January 26, 2021
Dr. Ruth Lanius finds neurofeedback can reduce symptoms and lead to remission in PTSD patients.
December 02, 2020
Lisa Saksida, co-director of BrainsCAN, has been named one of Canada's WXN Top 100, a recognition of women who advocate for workforce ...
September 08, 2020
Congratulations to Lisa Saksida and Jessica Grahn! 鈥淲e are extremely proud of the Royal Society of Canada鈥檚 recognition of research ...
September 07, 2020
澳门六合彩开奖预测 neuroscientist, Adrian Owen, is part of a team conducting a massive global study to understand what COVID-19 does to the brain through ...
August 14, 2020
Marco Prado, Emma Duerden and Barbara Fenesi have been awarded CFI's John R. Evans Leaders Fund this year. 鈥淭his is a very important ...
July 28, 2020
Daniel Ansari and Adrian Owen are among six interdisciplinary project teams awarded Manulife CIFAR Population Health and Wellbeing grants to study ...
July 23, 2020
鈥淭his is tremendous news for 澳门六合彩开奖预测 and for all our successful Chairs, including the first three ever in our Faculty of Education,鈥 ...
July 13, 2020
Lisa Archibald is hoping to unify parents, teachers and language professionals in identifying and treating a hidden language disorder that impedes ...
July 09, 2020
鈥淩esearchers have a role to play in solving the societal challenges facing us. CIFAR is a place where I can further contribute to the global ...
July 08, 2020
BMI neuroscientist Adrian Owen and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre neurologist Rick Swartz will participate in a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) at ...
July 02, 2020
Read. Watch. Listen. introduces you to the personal side of our faculty, staff and alumni. Participants are asked to answer three simple questions ...
June 29, 2020
鈥淚t鈥檚 been known for a long time that the cholinergic neurons are particularly devastated in Alzheimer鈥檚 disease,鈥 said ...
June 23, 2020
Read. Watch. Listen. introduces you to the personal side of our faculty, staff and alumni. Participants are asked to answer three simple questions ...
June 23, 2020
The COVID-19 Brain Study looks to recruit 50,000 individuals who received a confirmed positive diagnosis of the virus in order to answer pressing ...
June 19, 2020
Jonathan Michaels was recently awarded a 2020 Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship, given to top postdoctoral scholars nationally and internationally ...
June 18, 2020
The 澳门六合彩开奖预测-led LEAP (Learning, Education, and the Pandemic) study aims to assess family experiences with learning during COVID-19.
June 17, 2020
鈥淓ven with no concussions, the repetitive impacts experienced by players clearly had effects on the brain,鈥 said Ravi Menon, a ...
June 17, 2020
To better understand the experiences of care partners in southwestern Ontario, BrainsCAN, in partnership with the Alzheimer Society London and ...
June 08, 2020
鈥淭he need for neuroscience research continues to grow due to its potential to impact the health, security and vitality of society in this ...
May 03, 2020
Bonding with others during the COVID-19 pandemic through music
April 27, 2020
Dr. Lesley Rigg joins 澳门六合彩开奖预测 as the Vice-President (Research) this summer
April 23, 2020
A new study by 澳门六合彩开奖预测鈥檚 Brain and Mind Institute finds learning a second language does not transfer to other mental skills
April 23, 2020
Assessing well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic
April 21, 2020
Read. Watch. Listen. introduces you to the personal side of our faculty, staff and alumni. Participants are asked to answer three simple questions ...
April 17, 2020
To minimize suffering and the loss of human life, we must commit to the transparent and open sharing of data. Our models 鈥 whether they ...
April 16, 2020
Led by graduate student Clara Stafford, the Owen Lab in BMI, analyzed results of 12 cognitive tests from an online survey of nearly 20,000 people ...
April 15, 2020
Exploring the relationship between snacking and stress and how to overcome cravings while in isolation
April 15, 2020
Paul Minda and Ruby Nadler's work on improving work performance and well-being through mindfulness training receives online international ...
2nd Touchscreen Cognition Symposium
April 14, 2020This second symposium will be held online on April 22, 2020
Battling addiction during COVID-19 pandemic
April 14, 2020BMI researcher Kasey Van Hedger provides an in-depth look at the unpredictability of the pandemic and what that means for mental health and ...
April 07, 2020
BMI researcher, Daniel Ansari, suggests being gentle, creative and patient when it comes to online learning
April 06, 2020
Those struggling with addiction may find COVID-19 self-isolation challenging
Adapting to new patterns of arm dynamics
March 26, 2020澳门六合彩开奖预测 researchers show NHPs, like humans, account for and learn new patterns of arm dynamics.
February 17, 2020
By looking at the disease both biologically and psychologically, Psychology professor Lindsay Bodell, hopes to uncover the factors that make ...
February 17, 2020
鈥淭he conference is an opportunity for (people of all backgrounds) to showcase their work,鈥 BMI PhD student Kaitlyn Parks said. ...
January 30, 2020
In this study, researchers investigated 158 participants by analyzing first-person, text narratives shared by the individuals following their ...
January 14, 2020
Read. Watch. Listen. introduces you to the personal side of our faculty, staff and alumni. Participants are asked to answer three simple questions ...
December 02, 2019
For too long, auditory research has involved people listening to single sounds in sound booths 鈥 and that鈥檚 just not how we listen in ...
November 06, 2019
The amygdala, an almond-sized structure in the medial temporal lobe, plays a key role in processing emotions. However, in some children with ...
October 29, 2019
The Donders Institute welcomes the following researchers from the BMI: Susan Coltman (PhD candidate), with her project Are Fast and Slow ...
October 10, 2019
澳门六合彩开奖预测鈥檚 role in this international collaboration was to scan a group of participants at the Schulich School of Medicine & ...
September 26, 2019
澳门六合彩开奖预测 has invested more than Ca$400 million (US$302 million) in infrastructure, including biomedical imaging and high-performance ...
September 10, 2019
They have been elected by their peers in recognition of outstanding scholarly, scientific and artistic achievement. Election to the academies of ...
September 09, 2019
Last week, Mark Daley, a BMI Core member, was named Special Advisor to the President on Data Strategy with a mandate to help the institution make ...
July 22, 2019
Traditionally, the cerebellum has been known to play a key role in the coordination of movement. Research in the last 30 years has also shown that ...
June 13, 2019
Finding volunteers has often been the technological equivalent of the carrier pigeon 鈥 even if the message goes out, it鈥檚 ...
April 22, 2019
BMI Core Member, Andrew Pruszynski, has been awarded the J.A.F. Stevenson award from the Canadian Physiological Society, for his cutting-edge ...
March 26, 2019
Neuroscience researchers at 澳门六合彩开奖预测 have long worked with members of the London community to gather data for their studies. Launched this week, ...
February 11, 2019
We often think of our brains as the centre of complex motor function and control, but how 鈥榮mart鈥 is your spinal cord? Turns out, it ...
January 18, 2019
BMI PhD candidate, Alex Cross is the lead author of a new paper, along with Marc Joanisse and Lisa Archibald, that studies the correlation of math ...
January 02, 2019
澳门六合彩开奖预测 Psychology professors Laura Batterink and Lindsay Bodell were recently named Rising Stars by the Association for Psychological Science ...
Brain Bee Competition
January 01, 2019This year's Brain Bee competition ...
December 28, 2018
BMI neuroscientist Adrian Owen receives the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services in scientific research.
November 15, 2018
BMI researchers Michael Anderson, Ali Khan and Ranji Patel received CRC designations this year for achievements in their fields. The Canada ...
DI-BMI Exchange Program Award Recipients
October 30, 2018October 09, 2018
BMI neuroscientists from Adrian Owen's lab discover too much shut-eye can be as bad as too little sleep.
August 10, 2018
Emma Holmes, Ysabel Domingo and Ingrid Johnsrude publish findings that indicate familiar voices are more intelligible, even when not recognized as ...
July 30, 2018
澳门六合彩开奖预测-led study finds that Brain game doesn't offer brain gain. Research Scientist, Bobby Stojanoski, in the Owen Lab at the Brain and Mind ...
New BMI Faculty Member
July 02, 2018June 29, 2018
With support from a BrainsCAN grant, BMI Researcher, Stefan Everling, and his team show in a new study published in Neuron that a particular ...
June 06, 2018
Brain and Mind Institute neuropsychologist Jody Culham and her team are unlocking new understanding into the plasticity of the human brain, and ...
New BMI Faculty Member
May 09, 2018April 19, 2018
Marc Joanisse's collaboration with Joel Lopata and Elizabeth Nowicki finds creativity is a state of mind.
April 16, 2018
澳门六合彩开奖预测 celebrates the completion of the 澳门六合彩开奖预测 Interdisciplinary Research Building, which houses the Brain and Mind Institute, ...
NSERC Discovery Grant Awards
April 13, 2018Several BMI researchers have secured NSERC Discovery Grant funding this year, including Paul Gribble, Stefan K枚hler, Scott ...
April 10, 2018
Andrew Pruszynski is one of the 2018 Awards of Excellence recipients - Dean's Award of Excellence for Junior Faculty. Congratulations Andrew!
March 29, 2018
A study co-authored by BMI neuroscientist, Jody Culham, suggests brain rewires to embrace artificial limb. The research could be helpful in ...
March 12, 2018
BMI core member Ryan Stevenson has received an Early Researcher Award from the Government of Ontario to help build a research team in ...
February 01, 2018
BMI core member Andrew Pruszynski, is the inaugural awardee for this year's Early Career Award from the Society for Neural Control of ...
CIHR Project Grant Recipients
January 24, 2018Project grants are designed to support researchers at any career stage to build and conduct health-related research and knowledge translation ...
BMI Researcher Awarded JFAR Fellowship
January 12, 2018A Global Fellowship Program to Promote Research on Child and Youth Development
The BMI Has Moved!
January 02, 2018The BMI has moved to the 澳门六合彩开奖预测 Interdisciplinary Research Building effective January 2, 2018. The BMI's reception is located on the 3rd ...
April 18, 2017
Dr. Lena Palaniyappan receives Young Investigator Award from the Canadian College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CCNP). The award recognizes ...
April 01, 2017
The Beal Robotics Team 5024 successfully finished qualification matches ranked 1st overall (out of 35 teams) and were the captains of the winning ...
March 08, 2017
Fifteen outstanding young women researchers, selected among more than 250 candidates in the framework of the 19th edition of the ...
March 02, 2017
Molly Henry, from Jessica Grahn's Music and Neuroscience Lab, has been named a 'Rising Star' by the Association for Psychological ...
February 28, 2017
CIFAR Senior Fellow Anil K. Seth co-conceived and consulted for a radio programme which recently won Best Single Drama in the 2017 BBC Audio Drama ...
February 17, 2017
January 04, 2017
October 18, 2016
An international team of neuroscientists has shown that a person鈥檚 ability to see fine visual detail can be sharpened by simply staring for ...
September 15, 2016
鈥淚n my opinion, this comes at a really critical time for our understanding of the human brain and the challenges we are working hard to ...
Consciousness and phantoms: how our brains compensate for an unexpected data gap
June 07, 2016New research may lead us closer to managing phantom sensation by helping us understand the origins. In a paper to be published this year by the ...
May 11, 2016
Using standardized pre-existing software, the new virtual reality toolbox allows the investigators to homogenize psychological tests across ...
April 28, 2016
An international research team has now investigated their interactions in different states of consciousness and has discovered that patients with ...
April 21, 2016
A new study from 澳门六合彩开奖预测 shows that the parts of our brain that provide us with our sense of touch are activated when we watch someone ...
March 17, 2016
Tim Bussey and Lisa Saksida specialize in understanding cognition 鈥 learning, memory, perception and attention 鈥 and developing and ...
March 10, 2016
J枚rn Diedrichsen, who has come to 澳门六合彩开奖预测 from University College London, says the simple reason robots aren鈥檛 prevalent in ...
December 17, 2015
University planners hope a new campus facility will provide researchers across varied disciplines an environment conducive to confronting the ...
November 25, 2015
A $65-miillion investment from IBM Canada will enable innovative industry-academic collaborations at 澳门六合彩开奖预测 and 13 partner institutions.
November 25, 2015
For the record, the new partnership 鈥 formerly called Musical Learning Across the Lifespan (MLAL) 鈥 is more about brain development ...
November 06, 2015
For years, Canadian parents and educators have engaged in passionate debate over how kids learn math. The math wars, especially contentious in ...
October 22, 2015
October 09, 2015
At the same time, Canada is falling behind in many international comparisons of research productivity and innovation.
October 07, 2015
September 17, 2015
June 01, 2015
May 24, 2015
Brain patterns are in continual flux from day to day, person to person and even within the same person, our craniums not nearly as hard-wired as ...
May 18, 2015
His findings say traffic flow is as variable on city roads as the activity in human brains. The flow of traffic (or information) varies depending ...
April 09, 2015
Already recognized as one of the world鈥檚 top centres for cognitive neuroscience and imaging research, 澳门六合彩开奖预测鈥檚 Brain & Mind ...
March 10, 2015
His project, Metabolic and Functional Brain State: New Indicators of Early Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease, looks to develop a sensitive test for early ...
December 22, 2014
A new study by neuroscientists at 澳门六合彩开奖预测鈥檚 Brain and Mind Institute has further demonstrated that human echolocation operates as ...
November 27, 2014
A new study from 澳门六合彩开奖预测 provides researchers and clinicians with insight into a particularly debilitating memory problem that is ...
September 15, 2014
Researchers at 澳门六合彩开奖预测 have extended their game-changing brain scanning techniques by showing that a short Alfred Hitchcock movie can ...
September 03, 2014
When you reach into your pocket, you can easily tell a button from a coin. But how? Solving this seemingly simple problem is actually amazingly ...
August 26, 2014
澳门六合彩开奖预测 Psychology postdoctoral scholar Ian Lyons recently received a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship, allowing him to explore the neural ...
July 08, 2014
One of Canada鈥檚 most innovative neuroscientists is coming to 澳门六合彩开奖预测 to further her research into understanding human behaviour ...
June 19, 2014
New research by Physics and Astronomy professor Andrea Soddu touts the ability of PET (Positron Emission Tomography) scans to identify patients in ...
June 18, 2014
In a review published recently in Neuron, the Brain and Mind's Brian Corneil discusses the role of the superior colliculus (SC) during ...
May 02, 2014
澳门六合彩开奖预测 graduate students Stephanie Budgen and Anna Matejko鈥檚 work in the area of cognitive neuroscience is now part of a new web-based, ...
London Brain Bee 2014
April 22, 2014澳门六合彩开奖预测 Neuroscience graduate students, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry medical students and the Brain and Mind Institute recently ...
March 24, 2014
Most people realize a lack of sleep can impair their cognitive performance, but they also think they can simply catch up by getting extra sleep. ...
January 17, 2014
Frontiers for Young Minds is the first journal to bring kids into the middle of the scientific process by making them editors 鈥 and ...
January 14, 2014
鈥淲e obviously know alcohol impairs our decision making and motor skills but until now, we did not know how alcohol affects our ...
December 27, 2013
A new study from the Robarts Research Institute has found a better way to use MRI scans to detect and possibly follow the progress of multiple ...
November 19, 2013
October 29, 2013
Stuart Fogel, who recently joined Adrian Owen鈥檚 team at 澳门六合彩开奖预测鈥檚 Brain and Mind Institute as a Research Scientist, is conducting ...
June 28, 2013
A team of researchers, fuelled predominantly by 澳门六合彩开奖预测鈥檚 Brain and Mind Institute, won top prize in the Hackathon at the annual meeting of ...
May 03, 2013
澳门六合彩开奖预测 neuroscience researcher Melvyn A. Goodale has been elected to the prestigious Royal Society (United Kingdom), joining the likes of Sir ...
Analyzing brain activity in near real time
April 24, 2013Jingyun Chen, Jinhui Qin, Rhodri Cusack and Mark Daley demonstrated their real-time graph theory based neuroimaging platform at an IBM media event ...
2013 London Brain Bee
April 06, 2013On Saturday April 6, 2013 The Brain and Mind Institute hosted high school students in the London and surrounding area from grades 9 through 12 to ...
Canada-Israel Symposium on Brain Plasticity, Learning, and Education
March 25, 2013The symposium will take place at 澳门六合彩开奖预测 from June 14 to 16, 2013. Both Canada and Israel have a number of groups that are ...
February 15, 2013
Researchers at 澳门六合彩开奖预测鈥檚 Brain and Mind Institute (BMI) used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study the brain of ...
January 31, 2013
Between 50-75 per cent of patients with pacemakers will need a magnetic resonance (MR) scan over the device鈥檚 lifetime. As of right now, all ...
January 03, 2013
December 13, 2012
November 22, 2012
Psychology postdoctoral fellow Ian Lyons said the idea of math anxiety could, in some ways, be compared to other phobias, such as driving or ...
October 23, 2012
eLife, a new high-profile, open-access biomedical journal, has just been launched with 澳门六合彩开奖预测 professor Jody Culham on its Board of Reviewing ...
October 03, 2012
In support of the study titled, 鈥淎 role for the default mode network in the bases of disorders of consciousness,鈥 Davinia ...
August 10, 2012
Most people have been in a situation that suddenly feels strangely familiar, while also realizing that they have never been in that specific place ...
June 13, 2012
Adrian Owen has found a way to use brain scans to communicate with people previously written off as unreachable.
April 19, 2012
April 13, 2012
Grahn, a neuroscientist at 澳门六合彩开奖预测, has been awarded a grant from the Grammy Foundation for her ongoing research in studying how the brain senses ...
January 24, 2012
Led by psychology and music professor Jessica Grahn at 澳门六合彩开奖预测鈥檚 world-renowned Brain and Mind Institute, this new facility will help ...
December 16, 2011
Research from The University of 澳门六合彩开奖预测 Ontario is now looking beyond spinal cord injuries in patients to better understand what is happening in ...
We changed our name!
November 01, 2011As of November 1, 2011, the Centre for Brain and Mind will be known as The Brain and Mind Institute. This change in our designation by the ...
June 29, 2011
Over the course of the one-year study, human subjects had their brain activity scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while ...
June 06, 2011
Owen says, 鈥淎lthough our study looked at the brain鈥檚 response to jokes, our reasons for doing that were very serious. One of the main ...
May 25, 2011
A small number of blind people are adept at echolocating silent objects simply by producing mouth clicks and listening to the returning echoes. ...
May 13, 2011
Kish has developed an amazing ability to navigate by echolocation 鈥 similar to bats and dolphins. It鈥檚 a skill University of 澳门六合彩开奖预测 ...
March 08, 2011
The vast majority of humans 鈥 over 90% 鈥 prefer to use their right hand for most skilled tasks. For decades, researchers have been ...
The 2011 澳门六合彩开奖预测 Award of Excellence Presentation to Haitao Yang
January 27, 2011Computer system administrator, Department of Psychology Haitao Yang is one person a lot of folks count on. His focus remains on software ...
January 14, 2011
Dr. Ansari and his colleagues study neurological deficits that make it so hard for some children to learn arithmetic, the subtle differences ...
October 10, 2010
People deaf from birth may be able to reassign the area of their brain used for hearing to boost their sight, suggests a study.
May 17, 2010
One of the world鈥檚 foremost neuroscientists, Adrian Owen, has been recruited to The University of 澳门六合彩开奖预测 Ontario as a Canada Excellence ...
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