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- Epilepsy provides insight into déjà vu phenomenonHave you ever been overcome by the overwhelming sensation that you have experienced this exact situation before? This is the phenomenon of déjà vu – the two-fold feeling that something is familiar […]
- “Hand-in-hand” – How the brain handles a missing body partIn the 1990s, V.S. Ramachandran released a series of experiments that described a phenomenon whereby, despite a limb being amputated, a number of patients continued to vividly experience the presence […]
- Major assumption of fMRI likely correctFunctional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, more commonly known as fMRI, has revolutionized the way researchers study the brain. By using a magnet that is tens of thousands times stronger than the Earth’s […]
- Hair, Cortisol & Mummies: How your brain’s stress response can leave marks on your body that last a millenniumCortisol ‘tagging’ hair strands. Image by Sam Mestern, Composite illustration. Map from [1] released by British Library under public domain. Released under Public Domain. Around 1,000 – 2,000 years […]
- Small RNA molecules may explain a hallmark of ALSDoing the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge: a young boy dumps a pail of ice water over his head to promote awareness of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS In the summer of 2015, a year after millions of […]
Upcoming Events
Feb
18
Tue
9:00 am
Student seminar
Student seminar
Feb 18 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am
up to date version of schedule: https://www.schulich.uwo.ca/neuroscience/graduate/student_seminars.html The last date for the 2019/20 seminar course will be June 16, 2020.
Feb
25
Tue
9:00 am
Perspectives Speaker
@ Auditorium A at University Hospital
Perspectives Speaker
@ Auditorium A at University Hospital
Feb 25 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am
February 25, 2020 Dr. Jennifer Steeves, York University Associate Dean Research & Graduate Education, Faculty of Science Professor, Department of
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