2025

Announcements

Inaugural Cohort of Institutional Core Research Facilities.

Western Research has announced that the Western Centre for Brain and Mind (CBM) has been named one of six institutional core research facilities ...

How research is helping children with anxiety.

Neuroscientist Emma Duerden is in schools a lot these days, using her expertise to help children who experience anxiety.

Development and aging

Western researchers - key biomarkers for predicting chronic pain.

Two Western researchers, who are part of an international research team, developed a procedure to predict an individual’s potential for ...

Hey, parents: Advertisers could be using mobile games to build profiles about your kids

A Marketplace investigation exposes how advertisers can use mobile games that attract children to collect information about the players and build ...

Can we improve walking abilities with music and brain stimulation?

Aging and diseases can negatively affect gait, but external cues like music might help improve these deficits.

Computational brain sciences

Researchers deciphering how machine learning works with math

Team makes breakthrough in understanding how computer models can perform brain-like activities