PN Lab member Huaqi Li has successfully defended her honours thesis, and will be starting her masters degree in the fall at Yale University. Congratulations on both counts Huaqi!
A new PN Lab study reveals that the brain’s self-control network may play a more important role in regulating how we think after the first few bites than than in the lead up to tasting food. The findings are published in the July issue of Appetite.
PN Lab member Emilia Klassen successfully defended her honours thesis this week! Emilia will be moving on to pursue graduate studies at Western University this upcoming fall. Well done Emilia!
A great start to 2018 with a new PN lab meta-analysis published in Neuropsychologia documenting reliable effects of widely used brain stimulation paradigms.
Happy New Year from the PN lab!
PN Lab member Cassandra Lowe has successfully defended her PhD dissertation. In the spring of 2018 Cassandra will be moving onward and upward to the Brain and Mind Institute at Western University to pursue her postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Bruce Morton. Well done Cassandra!
Lab alumnus Kimberly Luu has published a new paper documenting the mood and brain health benefits of Hatha Yoga (see the media release here). The original article can be found in the current issue of Mindfulness. Congratulations Kimmi!
A new review paper on the impact of sleep restriction on brain health appears in the September issue of Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. Congratulations PN lab members Cassandra Lowe and Adrian Safati!
Peter Gianaros, Kirk Erickson, Tim Verstynen, David Cresswell and Peter Hall are guest editing a forthcoming special issue of Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences on the topic of Health Neuroscience. More information to come!
Parkwood Operational Stress Injury clinic has announced that they will be significantly increasing their treatment capacity for military personnel struggling with PTSD and other mental health issues, with an expansion that will result in a doubling of available space. The facilities will be dedicated to the treatment of veterans and soldiers, as well as RCMP officers.