CORTEX Lab - University of Victoria

11/04/2021

Recruitment for our eFIT study is now CLOSED. Thank you to everyone who shared or participated in this study! We look forward to sharing the results with you in the coming months.

09/29/2021

This week is BC's first-ever Concussion Awareness Week! Yesterday our lab hosted an event to talk about concussions and to share our research on sports-related concussions!

What would you like to know about concussions? Ask us in the comments below!

09/22/2021

Join us for our upcoming event, “BC Concussion Awareness Week 2021: Concussion in Sport” on Tuesday, September 28th from 12:00pm to 12:50pm in Maclaurin Building (Room D016). Snacks will be provided!

The purpose of the event is to acknowledge BC’s 1st Annual Concussion Awareness Week (https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/proclamations/proclamations/ConcussionAwareWk2021). We are inviting Vikes athletes and coaches, as well as faculty members and other students, with the goal of generating interest in recent sport-related concussion research findings.

If you have any further questions about the event, our research, or anything else - please let us know. Thank you for considering our invitation. If you are interested, please RSVP at https://www.surveymonkey.ca/r/GS92XHP.

07/15/2021

Did you know physical activity is one of the top recommendations for dementia prevention and delaying the onset of cognitive decline?

Our eFIT study was featured in the Globe and Mail!

Exercise and continuous learning can go a long way to fighting off cognitive impairment

02/25/2021

Check out our new recruitment video to see more of what we are currently up to:

A video about the Cortex Lab at the University of Victoria.

02/25/2021

After a long hiatus, the Cortex Lab is back on Facebook! Feel free to like and follow our page to stay up to date with what we are doing here at Cortex at the University of Victoria!

09/03/2013

Very interesting talk about a Doctoral student who was diagnosed with Schizophrenia. Having gone through her experiences, she provides an alternative perspective on hearing voices and how to treat them.

To all appearances, Eleanor Longden was just like every other student, heading to college full of promise and without a care in the world. That was until the voices in her head started talking. Initially innocuous, these internal narrators became increasingly antagonistic and dictatorial, turning he...